User talk:InFairness
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[edit] Eye colour
I have almost the same eye color as you have! User:Drogo 19:16. March 18, 2006 (UTC)
Hi! I thought you looked Eastern european on you pic, so I guess I was almost right there As for myself, I am Swedish-Norwegian, with one parent from each country. I will try to take a decent picture of my eyes as soon as possible User:Drogo 22:47. March 22, 2006 (UTC)
I'm sorry about the Eastern european thing, but Swedes tend to think that everything that is east of Sweden (with exception of Finland) is Eastern european, even Estonia, which has much more connections to Finland than it has to Latvia and Lithuania, for example. Although people don't really regard Greece as Eastern european either. On your pic I thought you looked like a _central_ european, Hungarian, Ukrainian or a country nearby. Please, enlighten me about this theory about the finnic people User:Drogo 11:14. March 22, 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I'm sorry about the delay, I'll try to get a pictire of my eyes. Do you have any tips on good ways to take pics of them? (it's quite difficult) User:Drogo 22:48 April 11, 2006 (UTC)
At last, here are my eyes. Not the best quality, though. http://img92.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gon12fi.jpg The colours might not be exactly true to reality. User:Drogo 15:48 April 30, 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Richard Nixon Parkway
No problem with the links. I also made Category:Southern California Unsigned Freeways a subcat of Category:Southern California freeways. Also, looking at your user page, instead of quoting the BJAODN directly, why not a link like this? Much cleaner, especially if you start to note a number of funny ones. Look at my page if you want; I have a number of links there. --Ricky81682 (talk) 08:34, May 11, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] substubs
I noticed that you created the article Sepulveda Blvd. (Unsigned Freeway) and tagged it as a substub. The substub template recently failed a vote at WP:TFD and has been deleted. The article you created has been sorted, but when time comes for you to create another article please use either {{stub}} or an approriate category specific stub template. --Allen3 talk 11:11, May 18, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Epiclesis
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- In Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Eastern-rite Catholic churches, and formerly in Latin-rite (i.e., Western) Catholic churches,
You deleted the words "formerly in", saying you were correcting inaccurate information. But the sentence as you left it was absurd. It said:
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- In Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Eastern-rite Catholic churches, and Latin-rite (i.e., Western) Catholic churches,
I changed it so that it says
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- In Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Eastern-rite Catholic and Roman Catholic churches,
(understanding the term Roman Catholic broadly as meaning not just Latin-rite Catholics, but all churches in full communion with the Vatican). Michael Hardy 00:41, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Reply to message placed on Michael Hardy's talk page
[edit] Epiclesis
I noticed your correction in the article epiclesis. I was obviously a bit careless in leaving the sentence as it was after removing the incorrect information. Thank you for correcting my oversight.
I am concerned, though, by the message you left on my talk page. I am not sure I would use that particular wording to express myself. In particular, you said:
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- You deleted the words "formerly in", saying you were correcting inaccurate information. But the sentence as you left it was absurd.
Without the "formerly in" clause, the sentence was awkward, but not unintelligible. "Absurd" implies that the sentence made no sense, which is not true. Absurd can also be read as an derogatory term.
I was more concerned with the edit summary. You said, "(Someone's way of "correcting inaccurate information" (see the edit history) is absurd.)"
Was this really necessary? It would have been more helpful if you had described what you actually did, instead of belittling the previous editor for what was actually a simple mistake, probably caused more by lack of sleep than anything else. As it stands, your edit summary helps no one, and is, in my opinion, not the most civil way to communicate information—in fact, it communicates no useful information at all.
I would like to point out from the Wikipedia Edit Summary:
- Avoid using a "judgmental tone in edit comments" as per Wikipedia:Civility#Examples. Examples include "fixed sloppy spelling", "snipped rambling crap".
I would also point out that your assumption (to change "Latin-Rite Catholic" to "Roman Catholic" thinking that it would include all other churches in communion with Rome) is incorrect. There is a reason for separating Eastern-Rite Catholic from Latin-Rite Catholic. Properly speaking, ER Catholics are not Roman Catholics at all. They are Ruthenian Catholics, Melkite Catholics, Chaldean Catholics, etc. Although "Roman Catholic," as is commonly used in the U.S.A. can refer to all churches in communion with Rome, this is not proper usage; it is perceived by many in the Eastern Catholic communities as at least marginally offensive, thus better avoided. The sentence as you left it did not quite make sense, though the grammar was improved.
Would you reconsider how you word your commentary? I hesitate to bring this up at all, but this doesn't seem to be the first time that this issue has come up. Examples are plentiful on this page, not to mention the Bureaucrat vote page. The reason I bring this up is because of a suggestion made on the Wikipedia page on dealing with conflicts.
[edit] User categorization
You were listed in the User:Grin/hu page as living in or being associated with Hungary. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Hungary for instructions. Adam78 00:09, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Capitalisation
Hi InFairness, good of you for creating those articles on abnormal respiration. I've renamed the category you created for them to Category:Abnormal respiration, as naming conventions indicate that articles should preferentially be titled in lowercase unless a proper name is involved. JFW | T@lk 09:41, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] New User:Instrument category
I have been contemplating a didg-0 template perhaps now I will make one. Creating the other new templates wont be a problem. I'm a bit lost as to what 'codes' or abbreviation to use for each instrument, any ideas? They must not conflict with any of the language codes listed here. If we follow the current 'convention' they should only be three or four letters long but if they need to be a bit longer the font size can be reduced so it will fit, if you look at the voc-1 box on my user page you will see what happens when isn't reduced. I will be away for the next few days when I get back, prob Sunday, I will go ahead and create them.—Rooivalk 11:50, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
I don't know what purpose you thought that User:Clavichord, User:Clavichord-1, etc. served. They were invalid and I have deleted them. -- RHaworth 06:36, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Coat of arms of Slovakia
Szervusz! :) I think your edits to the Coat of arms of Slovakia article were good, but it will take some time to make Juro accept them; he (...how should I put it in a NPOV way...) does not seem to be a person who has a high opinion on Hungarians. I'll try to keep an eye on the article. Alensha 13:14, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Sáránd
Well, for a guess it wasn't bad :) I use the data from the website of the Central Statistics Office of Hungary for the town articles (http://helynevtar.ksh.hu), it has the data from the 2001 census. (it's not always up-to-date but the best I can find.) Alensha 18:04, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Slovak noble families
Hi and thank you for your edits on Slovak articles. I've noticed that you had a run-in with User:Juro. I would not pay too much attention to his confrontational approach. He seems to be working in the field and appears to be quite knowledgeable and did an incredible amount of work on Wikipedia. His German appears to be excellent and I would suggest looking at the German version of the articles in question for clarification, whenever there is some doubt about their neutrality. Other than that I'd be happy to help with copyediting and/or brokering some sort of a compromise.
While at it, I couldn't help noticing this statement: "Juhás', which is Hungarian for "shepherd" is the second most common last name among modern Slovaks." I'm curious what the source would be for this. Also, you are probably aware that there are unfortunately some ethnic tensions between Slovaks and Hungarians, and that this could be potentially misinterpreted. Unless it's properly sourced of course. Best, 67.180.197.16 04:25, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Hm, the tension is not so great as it seems from the writings of Juro :) He seems to be very allergic on every Hungarian-related topic and finds relation even at places they do not egsists. Looks like a lighter paranoia to me, had probably very bad experience with someone from the Hungarian minority in Slovakia. Can not be helped, has very strong preconceptions and is not able to overcome them. - Serinde 11:32, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Addding POV
Stop whitewashing Hungarian issues (for example, removing information about the Holocaust in Transylvania) and adding POV (yes, "rabid romanianization" is POV). http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Satu_Mare&diff=prev&oldid=42091301 bogdan 21:01, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Eye image
Hey inFairness,
I didn't mean to revert what you had done just for the heck of it. I feel that the image was of fairly good quality, but I do agree with you that the caption was a bit POVish. Perhaps it would be okay to keep the image up but change the text? Not that I feel strongly one way or another, it's just that I'm not inclined to delete a picture which someone else had uploaded. If you think it's best without the image then that's fine by me. --Sean WI 18:33, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re: My Eye Picture
In response to your inquiry relating to the green eyes picture on the Eye Color page:
No, I didn't alter the image for the green eyes picture. The brassiness in my hair is due to the fact that I swim a lot in the summer and this was taken toward the end of it. Here is the whole picture of my face, as you requested.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/Spellshred/wholeface.jpg
[edit] Re: Awful articles
Hi,
I'm sorry but this subject is totally outside my expertise; but maybe other Hungarian editors (User:Zello for example) could help. We're also trying to breathe some life into Wikipedia:Hungarian Wikipedians' notice board so that things like this can be posted there. – Alensha 寫 词 11:41, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Católicos por la Raza
I was going with what my sources said. I apologize if my negligence in verifying the claims I reported offended you in any way. I assure you it was not intentional (WP:AGF). If you'll notice, I did not begin the article, but merely added to it. When I write or take credit for an article, I try to do as much doublechecking as possible. I regret that I don't do the same for all the contributions I make. You may also notice that CPLR is listed as an article in need of expansion under "tasks" at WikiProject Mexican-Americans. I listed it there because I realize that it was deficient. Unfortunately, I never got back to it. I thank you for your help in improving the article.--Rockero 21:27, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
