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"I'm comin' back, come rain or shine..." - Wikid77 is taking a short wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia soon. |
[edit] Stubs
Hi Wikid77 - good to see you making a few new stubs for wildlife reserves in Texas. If you mke any more could I ask you to add {{Texas-geo-stub}} rather than just {{Geo-stub}}? It'll save a bit of sorting further down the line. Cheers, Grutness...wha? 21:57, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Horse articles
Hi there, saw some of your edits in the various horse articles. Your attempts to clean some of them up are much appreciated, but be sure you aren't being TOO "helpful," OK? Some of the things are where they are, the way they are, for a reason -- particularly reference sections for articles that are start-class and just contain bibliographical info in absence of footnotes. Please don't make them "external links" when they are actually sources for the article. Also watch red links and disambiguation of links, OK? You may also be interested in looking at the "convert" templates that make it easy to put in both metric and imperial measurements. Overall, your efforts are (mostly) appreciated, but maybe ask a few talk page questions before making drastic changes -- at least to see if there is anyone out there who cares. (grin) Thanks. Montanabw(talk) 20:33, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Talk:Lady and the Tramp
Claiming someone has "mental problems", and advising someone to "seek professional mental help" because of a content dispute is a violation of Wikipedia:No personal attacks. Please do not make such comments in the future or you may be blocked from editing. Green caterpillar (talk) 17:46, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
- Well, it isn't really Wikipedia's job to give mental health advice. And, no, Wikipedia cannot be sued because Wikipedia is not responsible for its users' mental health. So, yes, you could say nicely "I consider your behavior off-balance", but leave the mental health issues outside Wikipedia. Green caterpillar (talk) 20:01, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Ada comments
You wrote:
- if you can't understand the details, someone else can - or put 10-word phrases in Simple Wikipedia, not here...
Leaving aside the unwikipedialike insult, let me mention that I was responsible for the Ada Test & Evaluation activity at Intermetrics in 1979-1981, where we worked with Ichbiah to refine his Green language into Ada. I think I understand Ada pretty well. And the use of "nested comments" in this section is completely idiosyncratic. --macrakis (talk) 14:44, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
- 04-Nov-2008: I'm sorry that you interpreted my comments against excess simplicity as an insult. I was focused on the idea of over-simplified text, hence the mention of "Simple Wikipedia" there. I have worked with numerous intelligent people, and they can understand "complex" ideas, which should be included in articles, so long as the details are limited to a few sentences. Many people have complained that Wikipedia articles are kept "too simple" in coverage.
Ada comments are in fact not a complex subject. The current text is unnecessarily convoluted, especially since everything it says applies to any end-of-line comments, whether in Ada or in SQL (which also uses the --...EOL convention along with the /*...*/ convention or in Lisp (;...EOL). Please see my remarks in Talk:Ada (programming language)....
- Sometimes, when involved with prior conflicts with several other people, it may seem as though "everyone" is tossing insults. However, it might also help to go on wikibreak, and rethink ways to avoid seeing other people's viewpoints as insulting. Could those people be merely expressing a strong opinion about the subject? Typically, when others instantly cite WP:CIVIL, then the situation has already escalated in their minds.
I find your tone condescending. Peremptorily reverting my edits without comment is not "merely expressing a strong opinion".
- I don't know what else to say to assure you that I am quite calm and happy. Just remember that many people think Wikipedia is far too over-simplified, or even "baby-fied" (as a "Kid-opedia"), and I hope that focus will ease your troubles and allow you to think of clever ways to include more complex issues without swamping general readers. Anyway, those issues can wait, and I just hope you get feeling better soon. -Wikid77 (talk) 12:27, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
I feel just fine, thank you. --macrakis (talk) 03:40, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
[edit] BAGHA JATIN
Thanks for the modifications. Is it possible for you to find out on what ground did [122.160.107.146]change Bagha Jatin's date of birth and impose 8 December ? Regards.--BobClive (talk) 09:01, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
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- Impressed by the serious approach,I am enquiring about it. The only reliable reference we have is from the written notes left by Vinodebala Devi (Jatindranath's elder sister); she mentions the Bengali date 21 Aghrahayana 1286. Thanks for drawing my attentio to the kumarkhali site : it is well written, based on a considerable study of available data.--BobClive (talk) 08:34, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Proposed deletion of Commonly misspelled words
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Commonly misspelled words, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:
[edit] The Chocolate Soldier
Delighted to see you added the German musical numbers. Many operetta article sections are based on English adaptations rather than the originals. I wonder if it's possible to edit the synopsis so it is faithful to the German work? What do you think? Best. --Kleinzach 04:07, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
- I would suggest putting, under "Synopsis", a subheader (triple "===") titled as "German variation" for that plot. Under that subheader, either summarize the total plot, or just note the differences. Because wiki-spoiler tags were outlawed, many people have learned to expect plot-details to be revealed under "Synopsis", so I would keep all plot details within that overall section, in case someone was planning to attend the opera for the first time, without spoiling the ending. Because the German Wikipedia is the 2nd largest, there is a growing interest in the German variations of many topics. -Wikid77 (talk) 04:28, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
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- I realize I misunderstood your "See above" edit because the position of the sections had been reversed by another editor, so now I understand you were referring to the English adaptation list of musical numbers. I don't know how accurate or inaccurate the synopsis is. The Opera Project have a policy of integrating musical numbers into the synopsis, so that may be an option for the future. BTW what was your source for the German musical numbers list? --Kleinzach 04:52, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Google Inc.
I see you've been involved with {{Google Inc.}} so maybe you can help. The template has a bug, see the talk page for description... GregorB (talk) 10:11, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Barnstar
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| For fixing a complex coding error in Template:Google Inc. when no one else could figure it out! - Ahunt (talk) 02:54, 3 February 2009 (UTC) |
[edit] DYK for Asterius of Amasia
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Dravecky (talk) 21:48, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Template fix
On behalf of about 5000 asteroids, I thank you. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:47, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Math notation
Why would you write this:
-ln(1-p) =
when you could write the following instead?
−ln(1 − p) =
You used a HYPHEN instead of a minus sign and you didn't use proper spacing. And why set it in bold? This is all codified at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (mathematics). Michael Hardy (talk) 17:40, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
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[edit] Extended growth
I took the liberty of adding two more aspects to your very nice essay, Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia extended growth. Oddly, I've never seen these mentioned. It should be possible to get numerical estimates for these. I don;t thing they've been discussed semi-quantitatively yet. DGG (talk) 06:11, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Template:Africa infobox
One of your recent edits to Template:Africa infobox caused a formatting problem. I have reverted it since I have no idea how to read all that code, but you may want to take a look. - BanyanTree 03:51, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
- Okay, I can change it to list those countries in a collapsed list. -Wikid77 (talk) 04:33, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Florida NHL
FYI, I left a comment on [[1]] about some of your edits. Thanks dm (talk) 04:21, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] vandalsims won by 2009
I just had an oppertunity to read your essay, and I must say I was impressed. Kudos for taking the time to put it together. If you have some extra time I was thinking of puting an essay together myself, any pointers? Good job Ottawa4ever (talk) 20:01, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places#Use_of_NRHPdts
I created a section at the NRHP talk page for your switch to your new template NRHPdts on the Alabama NHL list. Changing from January 21, 2001 to 21 Jan 2001 on US based articles is a bit questionable. I realize you prefer to tinker rather than talk, but I wanted you to know .... dm (talk) 22:12, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
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- I notice your mention at List of NHLs in CA that you/others are translating it to German. That's great! About the date formatting thing, I want to say that I am not opposed to applying the NRHPdts date-formatting template which you wanted to you. I don't quite understand how it helps, but I sense that you have good reason. I'd like to support your good efforts, so hope you might take some more time to explain at the WikiProject NRHP conversation.
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- Also, I don't know if you are aware of new Wikipedia:WikiProject Historic sites, to cover historic sites world-wide. I would be very glad if you would join and share about your translation or other experiences there, too. doncram (talk) 16:47, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Skeptical of Zodiac
Maybe you just read my birthday on my userpage and realized I was a Scorpio. Just because I'm aware of the astrological signs, doesn't mean I believe they control our fate. Nor do I believe whether or not you were born by Caesarean section has any relevance to how you live. There's a line in the Guadalcanal Diary song "Everything But Good Luck" that goes "When the stars come out at night, they shine on everyone." I think that says it all. ----DanTD (talk) 16:37, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia extended growth
Your essay Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia extended growth looks very good. I would suggest to add an introduction and a link to Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia's growth. As you might know I introduced the 3, 4 and 5M limit as the maximum number of articles on the english wikipedia (the logistic model). This as contrast to the belief that growth was exponential. My model was created in March 2006, THREE YEARS ago. Until this essay I have not seen new models. HenkvD (talk) 18:54, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Kudos for the work on image placement
Thanks for the effort you put into dealing with the issue of placing images when there is already a floating table. I fear that there were quite a few nights put into it. I'd given up worrying about a response after a week. I'll have to look more carefully at it when I can find the headspace. And thanks for the border + cellpadding tip. Cheers. -- spincontrol 23:01, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Fantastic improvements seen as Disruptive edits
Please stop making disruptive edits to the disambiguation guidelines, like you did here. I see that you're a regular, and the warning templates won't be needed, but other editors have already pointed out WP:NOT#BATTLEGROUND and WP:POINT in the edit summaries and on the talk pages. Please respect the consensus, even if you disagree with it. -- JHunterJ (talk) 00:55, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
- I had tagged the MOS:DAB with {{pov|guideline}} to indicate an ongoing WP:NPOV dispute. Per long-term Wikipedia policy, such a tag should not be removed during the process of resolving the dispute. I am NOT angry at you for ranting with your message "Disruptive edits" but please, let this be a wake-up, that you tend to jump to conclusions, which violate Wikipedia policy. Here's a hint: If a Wikipedia editor is experienced enough to use a POV-tag and/or Template:ombox, then consider, politely, asking them why they added those into a page, rather than claim disruption. Just a word to the wise... -Wikid77 (talk) 11:44, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Lighthouse maps (Isle Royale, etc.)
Nice addition. Thanks for doing that. Happy editing. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 17:49, 21 April 2009 (UTC) Dysm
[edit] Template:Location map many
Hi Wikid77! Do you have an idea how to deal with this problem? bamse (talk) 05:44, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Durance
(Duplicated from article talk-- please continue discussion there).
Looks like we're treading on each other's toes here.
I've reverted your changes references. Doing it the way you do, you lose the page numbers.
A common way to do it is simply refer to the book then the Notes just give the page numbers. So the ref just says [1] then ONE reference to the book in ==References== section,
- ^ Cléber, p.39
then goes into Notes section. I don't know if you've seen that before. It's not perfect I admit, but I've restored for now since I don't want to lose all the page numbers until it's been discussed. SimonTrew (talk) 11:17, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Talkback
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Thanks Wikid77, I'll take the baton have another copy edit then give you a nod to glance it over again. SimonTrew (talk) 12:57, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Tables and images
Hi! Thanks a lot for your help with the tables within texts some days ago. I now have another problem: Is there a way to make Wikipedia display images with abitrarily small heights when using Internet Explorer? This apparently works on other browsers, bot for IE wikipedia's css (I think) seems to require a minimum height for images in the order of one row. Alternatively, is there a way to let table cells on wikipedia have a background image?
What I am trying to do is to create a template for using traditional Mongolian script on Wikipedia. Because support for this script on computers is currently not very widespread, the idea is to combine images of the indivual letters. I think I already managed to make it work quite reasonably when writing horizontally (as in 
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Thanks a lot in advance, Yaan (talk) 10:49, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
- Sorry, I've never used the vertical placement of numerous images or the setting of background images. -Wikid77 (talk) 12:21, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Need to unblock an IP-autoblock
Editing prevented by:
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{{70.146.199.202|Blocked 70.146.192.0/18 for [[WP:Block#Evasion of blocks|Block evasion]]: [[User:Bambifan101]] sock farm|Black Kite}} -Wikid77 (talk) 20:15, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
I have granted your account an exemption from IP blocking. This will allow you to edit through full blocks affecting your IP address when you are logged in.
Please read the page Wikipedia:IP block exemption carefully, especially the section on IP block exemption conditions.
Note in particular that you are not permitted to use this newly-granted right to edit Wikipedia via anonymous proxies, or disruptively. If you do, or there is a serious concern of abuse, then the right may be removed by any administrator.
Appropriate usage and compliance with the policy may be checked periodically, due to the nature of block exemption, and block exemption will be removed when no longer needed (for example, when the block it is related to expires).
I hope this will enhance your editing, and allow you to edit successfully and without disruption. --auburnpilot talk 21:14, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
[edit] A study on how to cover scientific uncertainties/controversies
Hi. I would like to ask whether you would agree to participate in a short survey on how to cover scientific uncertainties/controversies in articles pertaining to global warming and climate change (survey described here). If interested, please get in touch via my talkpage or email me Encyclopaedia21 (talk) 12:59, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Articles for deletion nomination of Designated
I have nominated Designated, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Designated. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. JHunterJ (talk) 20:09, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Morocco subpage
Hi Wikid, you might want to consider deleting the subpage User:Wikid77/Morocco if you've finished working on it. I see that the last edit was in July '08. Jay (talk) 10:26, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Thank you
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