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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Euchiasmus, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] Gangga Negara

I'm sorry, I had to remove your additions to Gangga Negara, as they were insufficiently paraphrased from the source you used; the information and the source are both great, but we need to rephrase more to deal with copyright issues... If you'd be willing to do that rephrasing, it would be great! JesseW, the juggling janitor 05:12, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] James Cullis

hi why did you rub out a perfewc tly good statewment james former trloar student reply to jamescullis@hotmail.com

Sorry, James. Thanks for taking the effort to add to the Wikipedia encyclopaedia. And thank you for contacting me. I had no way of getting a message to you before deleting it.

Wikipedia is strict about the kind of thing it contains. It includes guidance like The five pillars of Wikipedia - and these link to lots of other articles about editing Wikipedia. They make the rules quite clear.

In particular, Wikipedia is not a place to publish points of view or opinions. I can see from what you wrote that you feel strongly about your experiences at Treloars. If you want to publish your opinions, why not start a blog - that would be an excellent way to do it! Wikipedia, on the other hand, is not a blog - it is a reference work - think what kind of information you would find in Encyclopaedia Britannica, or Encarta, or any encyclopaedia you know. That will give you a better idea what sort of contributions you can make.

Hope that helps, and that you don't feel bad about it. Do feel free to add your reply or comments below...

Euchiasmus 22:22, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hugh Miller

Yes, I did remove the external link in the Hugh Miller article (and in the many other articles to which it was added) because it was spammed. When I go on a link-removing spree, my intentions are only to remove links that are added in violation of the guidelines in WP:SPAM#How_not_to_be_a_spammer. My task is complete once the linkspam is removed. If future editors later determine a link to be useful to a particular article, then it's no longer spam and I welcome them to re-add it. Thus, I have no problem at all with the fact that you re-added it to Hugh Miller because (unlike the spammer) you:

  1. Appear to contribute more than just external links (i.e. you're not here solely to promote a site or sites by spamming)
  2. Took the time to explain the value of the external link in relation to the article rather than just adding the link "silently"
  3. Only added the same link to one article that you felt it was relevant to.

I recommend taking only one further step: you might want to add the same explanation you left on my talk page to the talk page of the Hugh Miller article (Talk:Hugh Miller). This way other future spam-removers will see that there has been some intelligent dicussion about the link and that it shouldn't be automatically re-removed. Cheers! --AbsolutDan (talk) 14:04, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:CapsuleEndoscope.jpg, Image:CapsuleEndoscopeEnd.jpg

Hello! Can You move these images to Commons? I want to use it on Polish Wikipedia? Thanx Remedios44talk 12:24, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

2 images moved to Commons. Glad they are useful. Euchiasmus 05:43, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kelantan River

hi! I am impressed with your contributions to the Kelantan River article. I'm wondering if you're interested in writing articles on other rivers in Malaysia. There are very little articles on Malaysian rivers. Wai Hong 05:46, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your positive feedback. Actually, the Kelantan river is the only Malaysian river I've visited or have photographed. This article benefitted from the fact that I spent some time in hospital recently and had time on my hands - so I occupied myself by researching and contributing to some WP articles (hospital system wouldn't let me login, so my edits show as 213.249.221.34). But I'm not an expert on Malaysian rivers!
Now I'm back at work, spare time is in shorter supply. But I'm sure there must be lots of other people out there who can correlate information from search engines, structure it, and then construct a well-referenced summary as a WP article. I must admit the satelite image was a bonus - I was delighted to find that World Wind showed the river up so clearly. Euchiasmus 20:53, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Actually, the other thing I find is that when I'm trying to research for Malaysian articles like the Kelantan River one, a lot of source materials are closed to me because, as an Englishman, I have very limited understanding of Bahasa Malaysia. That's why I've abandoned some of the other Malaysian articles I tried to create. Euchiasmus 05:40, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wheel chair with Mecanum wheels

Just thought to add a new sensation to the wheel chair section and was surprised by Your photo dated 1980.

Do You know more about the history of this wheel chair?

Any possible reason, why something first time shown 1980 is a fair sensation in 2006?

Mecanum wheel chair shown on the EVER Monaco 2006

I remember the wheelchair I photographed at an exhibition/conference in the early eighties caused quite a stir - lots of people wanting to try it, because its totally free movement was quite unlike anything else - like floating, but with complete control. You could move the joystick in any direction and the chair moved in that direction; you could also twist the joystick and you would turn round. The two movements could, of course, be combined if you wish.
I think it must have been a prototype, but I can't really remember (25 years ago is a long time!) and I was subsequently quite disappointed not to see them around. So I was delighted to follow your link and see that, at last, the idea is being taken forward, especially since I know someone who would probably like one.
So why has it taken so long? I wondered at the time if the cost was prohibitive, but now I'm wondering if the sale of the mecanum wheel patent to the US Navy had anything to do with it. Their particular use for it was in vehicles to get around tight spaces on ships, and probably didn't involve building wheelchairs. I'm only guessing.
I think patents give exclusive rights to a technology for something like 20 years, so once that period is up, other companies can use the idea.
Any idea how much they cost? Euchiasmus 19:34, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
The one at the fair was labeled with 2.000,-EUR special fair price, the normal price for the full equipped wheel chair abour 3.500,-EUR. --Pege.founder 05:31, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Frimley railway station

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[edit] Doveton Sturdee

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[edit] Seperate/separate

Thank you for noticing and correcting all the times I spelled "separate" as "seperate in the Disneyland Paris article. I'm very embarrassed, haha.

-Tom (Tomsintown)

[edit] Faeroe

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:List_of_tz_zones&diff=66773171&oldid=58123946 - regards Tobias Conradi (Talk) 01:09, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I've changed it back, and have inserted an html comment at that point in the page so that anyone else who is about to make the same mistake might read it first and stop. Thanks for spotting it and pointing it out. Euchiasmus 19:42, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

... :-) surely it was easy to make this mistake. html comment is very good. Lately I have the impression one would need much more comments all over WP. - Thanks for your nice reaction Best regards. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 10:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hampshire :-)

...wanted to wikify it at your user page. but some people don't like if other edit their user page. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 10:29, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

My immediate reaction was that I didn't want it linked (I don't want swarms of WP users searching the fields and hedgerows of Hampshire looking for me ;-). But then I thought - if I read somebody's user page and they came from Isfahan, or Kuching, or Henderson or somewhere, I might quite like to have a look at a page about the place to see what sort of environment they live in. So I've taken your suggestion and linked it. Thanks. 21:06, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stained Glass

I really appreciate it when someone corrects my spelling! No, what I mean precisely is- I really appreciate it when someone who knows when and when not to use double letters, and uses English spelling, corrects my spelling! You can follow me around from article to article, if you like! --Amandajm 12:50, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

I suppose some people in this world are brilliant scholars who can research topics and construct dynamic encyclopedic prose, waxing lyrical to engage the enthralled reader; others of us spend our time as nitpicking pedants, fussing over mundane matters of spelling rules and punctuation. It's a good job we are not all the same - it makes us learn to appreciate each other and work as a team. (sermon ends here ;-)
Thanks for dropping a note on my page - it's nice to know I'm not offending people by pointing out their mistakes! Maybe I will follow you around with my pile of dictionaries when I have time ;-) Keep up your good work...
Oh, and by the way, try turning your keyboard key-side downwards and banging it on the table a few times. You'll be surprised what a lot of accumulated gubbins comes out, and it might just stop the keyboard from its infurating habit of reppeeaatiinng letters.
Euchiasmus 20:05, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] August 6th, 2006 WP:RETF update

Note you are getting this because you are signed up on the RETF spamlist
Hey guys. Before I do anything, I have to thank all these people who have helped me make RETF more bug-free via my challenge to them on the Language noticeboard. Some were redundant lines, and some were words that probably never appear in Wikipedia, but as I said, I don't want any false positives in RETF.

THANKS GUYS! Now for the fixes and suggestions put on the RETF page:

  • 'behaviour' is a legitimate UK English spelling --Guinnog
  • 'councellor' to 'councillor' when 'counsellor' could be the intended word. --mattbr30
  • "Costal" is a real word, meaning "related to the rib" —Mets501 (talk)
  • 'judgemental' to 'judgmental'. According to my dictionary, both are equally acceptable. mattbr30
  • 'Adaptions' to 'Adaptations'. JoeSmack Talk
  • repond and variants -> respond --Guinnog

[edit] RETF development

I don't know what to say really. Something has come up and I might not be able to continue to update RETF after the next week or so.......I have put in countless sleepless nights of just me, my computer, and a case of Rockstar energy drink working on this. It has made me feel that I really am a devoted Wikipedian.

I have developed RegExTypoFix from a little hobby of mine into a full SourceForge project. I told a friend that I’ve worked 50 development hours in all. I have a really bad sense of time, but I’m sure it was more. I won’t lie, I am very proud of my work. Hopefully this will be used long after I leave.

To ensure that, I need a person/people to become admins on the RETF project. I don’t ask that you do anything but fix any errors that people report. There is a bit of a process to doing this, but I can teach you. Please send me a message on my talk page. Please my close friends only please, I hope you understand that I want to 100% trust this person. However, I might just hand it off to User:Bluemoose, as if he didn’t have enough on his plate =D.

[edit] Download + more

AWB now loads RETF everytime it loads, this box is no longer needed.

To keep an eye on RETF, you can use {{User:Mboverload/RegExTypoFix/updatebox}} and it will produce the box you see here =D. When AWB updates, I can turn it green on command =P

Extract Typos.xml from the zip file either using the zip extraction tool provided with XP or use 7zip.

Under the new system that Martin (User:Bluemoose) developed Typos.xml is separate from the settings file. This way it can be easily swapped out and doesn't interfere with your own personal find and replace settings. Put it in the AWB directory. It is loaded automatically when you start AWB.

In addition, each Typos.xml file comes coded with a version number. Perhaps in some future release AWB will be able to check to see if there's an update for you!

The latest version is not built into AWB, you will have to download it here Just updated a few minutes ago. --mboverload@ 01:51, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Myy Keyyboardd

I toook your advvice. Whatt's yourr next sugggestion.

--Amandajm 12:51, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos

Hi, thanks for working on Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos, i noticed on a few occasions you have added a ";" to various parts of the find+replace, such as here, having that exrta character will stop the regex working, so be careful not to add it! thanks Martin 13:11, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your message, Martin. I'm mystified. Apart from an early addition of "our's", I've been working on early lines only, so how these semicolons can appear so far down in the file I cannot imagine (I edit line 68, and a semicolon appears in each of 768 and 1145!). I didn't even scroll down that far in the edit window.
I think this is likely to be a software glitch, since these semicolons didn't come from my keypresses. I'm using Opera version 9.00, but will try Firefox, and will periodically do a search for ";" to see if any are creeping in. That should indicate whether the blame lies with Opera or with the Mediawiki software...
Sorry to make a nuisance of myself! Euchiasmus 13:24, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
It's fine, i assumed it was something unusual, keep up the good work. Martin 13:31, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Have done a few edits with Firefox (v 1.5.0.4) and I don't seem to be getting any spontaneous semicolon mutations. I'm beginning to suspect Opera... Euchiasmus 20:44, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] <Typo find="\b(A|a)b(il|li)t(y|ies)\b" replace="$1bilit$2" />

<Typo find="\b(A|a)b(il|li)t(y|ies)\b" replace="$1bilit$2" />

See if you can find the problem =D

You forgot to update the variable name from $2 to $3. Hehe, don't worry about it. I have so royally fucked up so many times I don't even want to think about it. --mboverload@ 12:09, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Oops! I meant to put "\b(A|a)b(?:il|li)t(y|ies)\b" but forgot the ?: - so easy to make mistakes with these things. Some of the more complex ones I check in AWB as a straightforward search/replace - but this one escaped! Thanks for finding it and letting me know. I'll try to be more careful in future... Euchiasmus 13:25, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Warrent -> Warrant?

As per this edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deutsch_Limit&diff=68140576&oldid=61815872 The character combination Warrent is a typo that could also mean Warren, and not just Warrant. Blu3d 07:20, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

You're right - I messed this one up. Thanks for finding it and correcting it. AWB had warrent->warrant in its search list and I didn't check carefully enough before accepting the suggested change. Cheers. Euchiasmus 07:26, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
No worries mate. 'twas an easy one to miss. Blu3d 07:36, 13 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] External link on Alton, Hampshire

Thank you for the message on my talk page. I deleted the link as it has transpired that the owner of the website in question has been placing links to his own site through a variety of sockpuppets and anonymous IPs on a large number of Wikipedia articles, presumably in order to increase his Google Page Rank, as he offers consulting services. When his links are removed, he becomes quite astonishingly aggressive and abusive (most notably on the Brighton page, but also on others). He refuses to debate and simply leaves endless, rambling, self-important messages on talk pages.

I hope this clarifies the situation, please do leave me another message if you would like any additional information.

--Bcnviajero 10:24, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Typo RegEx

Oops! Sorry about the "nonsense/ical" typo. I must have made a few hundred changes to that long list (all today!), so it figures I had to make at least one typo myself (hit "/0" instead of shift-")". Concerning your very long "flouride"-correcting RegEx, you know, you can leave off the "\b" (which indicates the "b"oundary of a word) on the front and back and save a lot of bother. I'd be bold and put just "([Ff])lour(i[nd][ae]|esce)" --> "$1luor$2" (with no "\b" at either end) and see if anybody complains.--BillFlis 23:27, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your helpful comment. However, I was considering the rule Always consider the possibility of false positives - don't add if there is one and although matching any word that has ([Ff])lour(i[nd][ae]|esce) in the middle is attractively simple, I can't help suspecting that there could be false positives from doing that - people's names, place names, songs, pop groups, all kinds of fiction - there are a lot of strange words out there that a non-terminated regex might match. I think I'll stick with my horrendously long regex since it does keep a boundary on the possible matches. Thanks all the same. - Euchiasmus 20:11, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:BintreeMill(MarkBoyer)Oct2005.jpg

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Just for the record, I've amended the copyright information (it was Creative Commons ShareAlike) - I had clicked Upload before clicking to enter the copyright, and only realised after this most efficient of bots had already slapped my wrist. PEBKAC here :-( Euchiasmus 09:13, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Allegations of sock puppetry on the Center for Science in the Public Interest page

Allegations of sock puppetry have been made against some of the accounts that have edited the Center for Science in the Public Interest page. I have instigated the wiki process for handling such allegations. See Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/David Justin. As someone who has contributed to the CSPI page. Please add your views to the Comments section. You have up to 10 days to make comments on the allegation. Nunquam Dormio 18:31, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

I was one of the other editors to get this notice, and much like you my contribution to the article was very minor (I added a space). I've read your response, and thought I ought to explain that the allegations aren't directed at you, and the notice is just asking for comments. It is worded quite confusingly though: when I first read it I thought I was being accused of sock puppetry as well. — blobglob talk 07:48, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
Yes, looking at the wording, it could have been improved. My apologies if it spooked you. The 'accused' get a completely different standard wiki text with a nice logo. I'm just asking for comments from all 'stakeholders' in the page on the narrow question whether sockpuppetry has occurred. Nunquam Dormio 08:15, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for reassurance - maybe I did respond rather defensively! The heading (Allegations of sock puppetry...) is rather alarming when you first read it, but when I got to the page and read the list of suspected puppet accounts (and found I wasn't in the list), I realised you were just being thorough. Cheers - Euchiasmus 09:13, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "As of"

Hi, I reverted your removal of the "as of 2006" link in the article about Kamenitza. The purpose of linking such stuff is apparently to keep track of outdated information (see WP:AO), and not to mark events which happened during the respective year. If you really believe I get it wrong, do your edit again and I won't revert. --Cameltrader 18:07, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

I have no strong feelings on the matter - I'm just get tired of people who link everything that will link - I ask myself, "will anyone ever want to link from here to that page?". As for this instance, I'm happy to leave it linked. - Cheers, Euchiasmus 20:05, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
:) Sure, overlinking does more harm than convenience. --Cameltrader 20:23, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spelling

I notice that in the article Every Day with Jesus you changed targetted to targeted. targetted is perfectly valid spelling, it just happens to be UK English. Wikipedia policy says that either is allowable, and in general spelling should be that most closely relating to the subject. DJ Clayworth 17:45, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for leaving me a message, DJ. I was sleepily using AWB over breakfast this morning, aiming to zap another fifty or so WP spelling mistakes before setting off to work. There's a clever feature whereby AWB can load in an enormous list of regex search/replace pairs from Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos and then use those to locate spelling mistakes. So targetted got changed because it's on that list.
I was simply going to use that (and my divided attention) as an excuse, but I found your UK/US comment intriguing, especially since I'm entirely British and have never been tempted to indulge in American spelling. So I reached up and pulled my good old Chambers Twentieth Century Dictonary off the shelf to see what it says - and it doesn't include any such word as "targetted"! The correct (UK) spellings are given as target, targeted and targeteer. That leaves me wondering which dictionary led you to believe that "targetted" is a perfectly valid spelling?
There are people, of course, who believe that language is a living, evolving entity, and that when enough people spell something a certain way that should be accepted as correct. However, "targetted" loses out on this score too. A Google search on targeted site:uk gave me over 9½ million pages, whereas targetted site:uk gives only 186,000; thus, fewer than 2% of uk instances use "targetted".
I'm not a pedant, and I certainly don't intend to engage in any reversion wars! I'll leave it up to you whether you want to stick with "targetted", or whether you would like to change it.
Keep up the good work :-) Cheers! - Euchiasmus 20:12, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

British spelling convensions would lead one to think that the "t" at the end of "target" should be doubled before the "ed", as in "vetted" against "vetoed". However The Concise Oxford gives "targeted". When the word "target" came into the English language, it would have been pronounced "tar-jay" or "tar-djay" which may account for why it missed out on the double consonant when adding "ed".

--Amandajm 22:08, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

On the other hand, perhaps there's something wrong with the spelling convensions..... --Amandajm 22:10, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stained glass - British glass, 1811-1918

Hi Euchi!

The search is on...... Find that missing pronoun!

And while you're about it, locate the typos, spellos, duplicated words and repair the dreaded split infinitive!

All the best,

--Amandajm 21:53, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Cheers for adding the welcome pack to my talk page.

[edit] AWB Typos

Hi, Can you please put new typos in the new typo section please? As it asks for on the page

They are then easier to detect if there are problems

Cheers

Reedy Boy 21:11, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I forgot. I did a lot of editing when the list first went public, changing the lines in situ, and had forgotten that the regime has changed. Cheers - Euchiasmus 21:18, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] So where have you been then?

That error on the cathedral page must have been there for yonks! .... and as for the dreaded split infinitive, it will be probably feeling neglected! --Amandajm 13:55, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

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