User talk:Mpearl

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[edit] Welcome

I am Morris Pearl. You can see http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~morris for some more information about me. I contribute to wikipedia once in a while, but I read more than I write.

My sons (11 and 14) also find wikipedia a useful source to do some of their research.

[edit] yield

yea, thank you for pointing out my mistake. it should be YTM if i remember correctly --空向 00:27, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC) sorry, i am forgetting too much. just edit as you know it. --空向 00:36, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Mortgages

Hi Mpearl - I saw you mention on Village Pump that your specialty is mortgage securitization. If you have a spare moment, we could use your help on the related pages. I've taken a stab at the subject on GNMA but haven't had time to add detail to other pages that would also benefit - as you know, the finance articles on Wikipedia are often lacking and can use a lot of development and detail. It's a shame at the moment because for a lay person like myself it seems to take a lot of time to find details about the field on the web. Thanks in advance for any assistance you can lend. By the way, personally I haven't found that your concern (of endless fighting with the ignorant) has been much of a problem. Tempshill 00:43, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the extra detail on GNMA. I wasn't aware of the distribution of the half-point split. Tempshill 04:41, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Respiration

You may well not beleive that it's causing my computer to crash, but it is. Also, a Wiktionary search shows that there is no such word as "snippy". Don't reply: see my talkpage for reasons.--Gabriel (internal ID number: 118170) 18:37, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Henry Morgenthau

Hi,

Regarding Henry Morgenthau, Sr., I'd been rewriting the second section when you turned up, and appear to have overwritten your changes... my apologies. I was trying for something relatively innocuous; the section there before either of us edited appeared to be a fairly one-sided piece, and whilst I don't know much about the topic (no dog of mine in this fight - I came to it looking for information on his son), I do know it's contentious and the original looked biased. What do you think of this alternate version? It cuts out most of the quotes; they may be accurate, but I have a suspicion they were deliberately selected for "political effect", as it were...

Comments appreciated. Shimgray 02:31, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

(Update: I've reinstated your edits on the biography - thanks for those, it was a bit stilted - but am leaving the more equivocal controversy section for the moment. Feel free to revert it if you object.) Shimgray 02:34, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

It still needs a polishing, but I'm glad to see someone else thinks it's a fair summary. Thanks for the help. Shimgray 03:37, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jimmy Carter

I was reverting vandalism by a known troll; the hostages et al are already covered in the article. Ollieplatt is the subject of an arbitration proceeding; see: Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Libertas and Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Libertas/Evidence. Ollieplatt is just one of his many user IDs; he has many sockpuppets. — Davenbelle 20:06, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)

He's been at the page again; I'll revert again, but feel free to help defend the page. — Davenbelle 22:36, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)

p.s. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Ollieplatt

I'll leave the page alone; if you like, have at it. I believe Ollieplatt just got blocked again. FYI, see Internet troll and Wikipedia:Dealing_with_vandalism. — Davenbelle 23:21, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Morris. I don't believe you'll be encountering Ollieplatt much more; see:

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Libertas#Temporary injunction.

If you do, or encounter a new sockpuppet or anon IP who you believe may be Ollieplatt et al, please let someone know: User:RickK, User:Fvw, User:Rdsmith4, User:Danny, User:GeneralPatton or someone on the Arbitration Commitee.

— Davenbelle 00:11, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User:12.217.127.27

Hi Morris. I noticed this user last night. I don't believe this is Ollieplatt, in fact the anon reverted Ollieplatt several times (however, this could be part of game). That IP is taged as being in Moline, Illinois, which is not where I believe Ollieplatt to be. I don't intend to get involved in editing the content of political articles. I believe Jimmy Carter is a good man and was a good President at a time when it was a rather difficult job. You seem like a reasonable person and I would encourage you to Be Bold. Feel free to drop me a note anytime. Best wishes. — Davenbelle 01:30, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Signpost

Thanks for your comments. It's been advertised a little bit on the mailing list, the Community portal page, and yes, I also put it on the village pump when I first started. The announcement's still there last I looked, but it didn't really trigger any discussion, just presumably sent a few people off to read it. So anyway, the fact of its existence is still sort of trickling through the community, and since it seems the publicity hasn't reached saturation levels yet, I suppose I could do another announcement sometime to remind people. --Michael Snow 07:04, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Gates

Hi Morris, thanks for the Gates photo, perfect! I added somewhat to the image tag:

[[Image:Gates_base.jpg|thumb|450px|''The Gates'' during construction: One of the many metal Base parts (February 6, 2005)]]

See The Gates in what this results --Francis Schonken 08:17, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

There are (several) image tutorials, e.g. Wikipedia:Images, Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax, ...

so e.g. [[Image:Gates_base.jpg|thumb|center|250px|''The Gates'' during construction: One of the many metal Base parts (February 6, 2005)]] gives what you see here:

The Gates during construction: One of the many metal Base parts (February 6, 2005)

--Francis Schonken 08:41, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Nice photos! Looking forward for an update after February 12. Also, since you said on Image:Gates base.jpg 'All rights are granted under the same license terms as the rest of Wikipedia, could you add a {{GFDL}} image copyright tag to the images? This gives them the same copyrights as the other wikipedia texts. Thanks -- Chris 73 Talk 23:57, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)

Great. Thank you! Now the license is clear. -- Chris 73 Talk 04:10, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)

What I don't like about your The Gates photos is that they look like you took them on a camera phone. I would like the article to have some really high resolution pictures as a historical archive. The Gates are going to be gone in however many days and I would like to show my future kids some really good photos of it. I am not trying to be insulting, this is just what I would like to see. Sorry if I offended you.MpegMan 04:49, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Maybe you could upload some picture to the Wikimedia Commons.MpegMan 02:12, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)p.s. I just found this picture in the commons. This was the kind of picture I wanted to see.

[edit] The Gates High Resolution Pictures

User:CoolGuy slapped a VfD on The Gates High Resolution Pictures but did not finish the VfD job. See my comment when I removed the VfD. They (other Wikipedeans) do not like big pictures in article pages - but thumbnails are always clickable to get to a big picture. -- RHaworth 11:48, 2005 Feb 25 (UTC)

I am sure I read that Christo himself says that his works are not permanent. They are meant to be photographed and dismantled. So the more pics the better. Since these are on display in a public place, I am sure he has no copyright over pictures of The Gates. (But I don't think that was CoolGuy's problem anyway.) -- RHaworth 13:07, 2005 Feb 25 (UTC)

I put them in a separate article specifically because the large pictures would make The Gates take a long time to load. The pictures are made available under the GFDL, they are my pictures. (They were obviously all taken out doors in public.) The Gates are to be dismantled two days from now. I have no problem combining the two articles, if that is what someone wants, but I shall be on vacation for about a week, starting very shortly.

I said thumbnails (I assume you know what that means). Wikipedia is very clever and generates thumbnails for you. Put thumbnails in The Gates article and it will not take much longer to load. See Wikipedia:List of images/Places/Europe/United Kingdom/Cities/London/Croydon for an example of how to create a gallery.

In fact with your pictures in a thumbnail gallery it will be a two stage process: the user clicks on the thumbnail which takes them to the Image description page which shows a larger but still Wiki-generated version of the image. There they can click again to see the full size version. Messy but it works and that is how these (mostly totally verbal) Wikipedians like it.

I repeat, your High Res page was marked VfD. CoolGuy may be cool but he is not actually a WikiWiseGuy. Even so he may come back and re-instate the VfD and I might get into trouble for removing it.

Best of luck. I am fuming at the moment because someone has thrown away some images I put on Wiki so I sympathise with you. -- RHaworth 16:35, 2005 Feb 25 (UTC)

[edit] LBJ

Thanks for the note--I meant to type "since before the Civil War". Best, Meelar (talk) 17:25, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] GNMA

Sorry, indeed, I gave a little thought to the move. But you do agree the section is related to all three of them. How about making a separate article and link to it from the "big three"? Mikkalai 17:42, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC) Please take a look at Mortgage GSE controversy and surrounds. Mikkalai 18:15, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

More answers at User talk:Mikkalai.Mikkalai 19:07, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Good afternoon, Mpearl. Was it Adam directed you onto this, or did you search for Franklin's name throughout articles to find that we were mentioning it? Merely wondering.

Sometimes it's complicated to keep an eye on one idea of one format of name while keeping the other active at the same time, and I understand that. Otherwise, where do you stand on the issue of the current name of the FDR article? I think I'll continue with the work, and keep on keepin' on with these FDR redirects.

Thank you. Bobo192|Edits

Wow. Cool. I really should have checked the edit history more carefully to see who had contributed. :) But then again, to these articles I normally make the tiniest, tiniest possible of edits, normally, to my detriment, several at a time. In fact, there pops one up for Witte right now.

I'll see what more I can do to these articles - they're not usually the kind of article to which I contribute, but I'll give my best shot. Thank you. Bobo192|Edits

I always believe in trying my best for any article which I can, or for which I've been set to, so I'll research this one through and see what can be achieved. Bobo192|Edits

[edit] More on Roosevelt

I think the easiest thing to do here is alert you to User_talk:Bobo192#Roosevelt_2, to see the latest developments on the Roosevelt saga. How is this idea? Bobo192|Edits

This situation is becoming more and more difficult as time goes on. I'm getting the feeling I should have stayed outta it altogether..

I'm still not sure of the real solution, even despite this. I don't even think I have a valuable opinion on the matter any more. That said, things aren't generally known by FDR's full name on Wikipedia, cf. Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park. Ugh. For that matter, there's two articles on that topic (the second is at F.D. Roosevelt State Park). This is getting more and more confusing. Bobo192|Edits

I've reverted the FDR changes, as far too much content was lost (I posted the tip of the iceberg on both Talk pages), let alone the separation from the history and the rarely used form of the name. I'm going to suggest Adam discuss any future drastic changes before implementing them. Niteowlneils 00:16, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Survey on Prefixed-Styles

Since you are one of the people currently voting only a "First choice" I am hoping to encourage you to vote a full set of preferences in the ongoing survey before May 14, in order to prevent a deadlock which will result in no consensus. Whig 13:10, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Queen Elizabeth II

Please note that I have disputed the neutrality of this article. Jguk reverted my NPOV template, claiming that the NPOV dispute is just a personal campaign of one person. Whig 08:58, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Arthur J. Altmeyer

Thanks for the note. I've cleaned up the AJA article. I understand the description "wikify" to mean something like "opportunities to insert wiki links in this article". best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

[edit] Infobox President

Hi. There has been a mess on that template. As a hot fix I've created template:Infobox President old. Please use that on all articles that you see broken. Many articles have already been converted to a new parameter set, so they now need the new version of Netoholic in order not to break. Adrian Buehlmann 02:15, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi. Please address further concerns regarding template:Infobox President to User:Netoholic. template:Infobox President old is now orphaned (not used) and I put it up for a speedy delete. Adrian Buehlmann 10:04, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Poll on years of birth/death

Hi, you may want to participate in the poll at Wikipedia talk: Manual of Style (dates and numbers) # "Should the year of birth/year of death be linked in biographies?" -- User:Docu

[edit] Lewis Hine

I reverted that article before I was an admin, so chances are I reverted to the wrong version. I would revert to any changes before Dec. 9, just to be on the safe side.--Shanel 05:19, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mark Green

You know, I had the exact same thought about cropping it--I'll do so tonight; I was torn if I liked the crowd in or not. I'll see what it looks like and let you know when I upload so you can give your opinion. The three author shots I have done so far were my first of people, and they are difficult to do. I would like it to be crisper, so hopefully that will improve. --DavidShankBone 22:15, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Morris, I cropped the Green photo; I think our intuition was right--let me know what you think. --DavidShankBone 00:49, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Morris I think I'm getting better with the photos of people. The problem is they move a lot and I had to use a slower speed to not use a flash. These are two I took last night Billy Goldberg (doctor) and Mark Leyner. So, some improvement. --DavidShankBone 13:46, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Turning articles into redirect pages

Regarding this edit: Please remove all prior content in an article when turning it into a redirect page. I've removed the old stuff under this particular redirect for you - it was causing MediaWiki to flag the page as a broken redirect page. Regards, Kimchi.sg 14:15, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Frank hogan

NOTE TO ALL PLEASE SEE:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:People%27s_Volunteer_Army for background info about John Smith's's actvieties just anote up till now he has only edited China articles this "just happens" to be his first article rleated to NYC.

If anyone thinks I'm just paranoid about John Smith's, look at the Frank Hogan article, its a topic that John Smith's knows nothing about a Ny DA, who has had several important biographies written about him. But because I was the creator of the article John Smith's tagged it with nonnotable. Look I didnt want to believe that John Smith's was pursuign a vendetta against me I wanted to beleiev that it was just a coincidence and that he was just very active in China related articles, but the NYDa has nothing to do with his "expertise" it was clearly done simply to "punish" me, it is IMPOSSIBLe that it was a coincidence. --Gary123 04:24, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Img 0586.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Img 0586.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in its not being deleted. Thank you.

[edit] Upcoming NYC Meetup

You might want to know when the next meetup was being organized in New York City. Plan for Saturday, 9 December 2006. While you're at it... Come help us decide on a restaurant. See: Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC. Spread the word. Thanks. —ExplorerCDT 23:06, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

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