User talk:Qaz

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Contents 1 Deaf 2 S.E.E. Question 3 User language boxes for sign language 4 rv of edits on Mahatma Gandhi 5 Journalist's RFA 6 pro-ana 7 HEY 8 Sig 9 Deaf President Now 10 Wikipedians in MD 11 International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circulations 12 MOTSS 13 Welcome 14 Antilocra II and III 15 Where The Heart Is 16 Thank You 17 TOP SCIENTISTS 18 Your RFA 19 Near Vertical Incidence Skywave 20 Rational Recovery 21 Ejaculation (grammar) 22 Root32 23 re: Adville 24 Congratulations! 25 My RfA 26 Administrator 27 Popups tool 28 CBW RfA 29 WikiProject on Sign language, Deaf culture, and deafness 30 Sun tan link 31 Child of Deaf Adult 32 As Good as It Gets 33 Redir test 34 idioms paper

[edit] Deaf

Excellent work on turning the article Deaf into a proper disambiguation page. Thank you.

--Pengo 04:22, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] S.E.E. Question

Qaz, I'm so sorry I didn't get back to you on that S.E.E. question. I didn't even notice it until today. My comments on the article say that teachers are switching to Signed English to explain S.E.E. There are two different hybrids. S.E.E has the same order (English) as Signed English, but S.E.E. has signs for verb tenses like the "ing" in "going". Signed English, however, does not use signs for "ing" "ed" and so on. Here's an example. Suppose a teacher is explaining the sentence "You are going." She will sign it in S.E.E. first. If she sees that the students don't understand, she will switch to Signed English to explain what she just said in S.E.E. because the students and the teacher are more familiar Signed English. In Signed English she might sign:

YOU [points finger]
ARE [using the sign "true" while mouthing the word, then spelling A-R-E]
GOING [signs "GO", then spells the letters "ING"]

However, if the kids don't understand either the S.E.E. explanation of "You are going" or Signed English explanation of "You are going", the students will gather after class and work out the problem, maybe successfully, maybe not, in ASL. As sentences become more complex the switching from S.E.E. to Signed English to ASL becames a bloody nightmare. I have a hearing friend who learned to sign from a deaf guy who taught him S.E.E. signs but told him the signs were ASL. It's unnerving for me to try and sign with him. He's *ADAMENT* that he's signing correctly. I finally stopped using signs with him because he never knew the difference between ASL signs and SEE signs. My experience is that native signers will almost never correct a hearing person's signs because they have the same feeling about doing so that hearing people have about correcting a person's spoken language. They think it's rude or inappropriate, or they just don't want to get on the bad side of someone who seems willing to communicate using signs. It's a dilemma.

Does that help? Ray Foster 18:42, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User language boxes for sign language

Hello :)

I just created user language boxes for sign language, similar to the ones that exist for spoken languages. You may like to have a look. Any feedback is of course welcome!

Cheers, ntennis 09:09, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

No it wasnt :). A good try again nevertheless. Youll get there in a few more attempts :-)

Journalist ^C./ ^{Holla @ me!}

[edit] rv of edits on Mahatma Gandhi

Hi Qaz, you are welcome. Actually, I was also trying to revert the same time that you were and you bet me to the post. A minute later, I realised that a line of vandalism still remained. -Gurubrahma 09:47, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Journalist's RFA

I want to thank you very much for your very kind words on my RFA. Greatly apperciated, I owe you one! Journalist | huh? 16 December 2006

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[edit] pro-ana

please to write more

[edit] HEY

do not delete my article i wrote it

You made an article for Pro-Ana when we already had one at Pro-ana. I looked over what you wrote and it seemed to duplicate what was already at the article we already had so I made the one redirect to the other. If you feel something is not in the article it redirects to, add it or tell me what you think it is missing if you do not know how. By the way, it is good to sign your edits on talk pages. You can do so by ending the comment with four tilde marks. Qaz 00:46, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sig

Hi, saw your note on Journalist's page. I note you've been here for an incredibly long time. Cool. Anyway, there's stuff about sigs here: m:Help:Preferences. Regards—encephalon 12:23, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

To get you sig 'pretty', all you have to do is format it with different colours. Im gonna make a fake one for you just to show you an example: Qaz | talk.

You can now go from here changing the colours or any combination; the colours are the numbers. you can find a buch of colour codes here. After you have fixed it, you copy the combination and go to your preferences, place them in the "Nickname" bar. Then click "Raw signatures...". After you have done this, any time you use your four tildes, it will look fancy. hope that helps. If you are still confused, contact me. →Journalist >>talk<< 16:34, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Your new sig looks great. Welcome to the "club". Hope you didnt have any trouble upgrading it. →Journalist >>talk<< 20:51, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Deaf President Now

DPN appears to be "your" article, as you wrote the original. In case it's no longer on your watch list, I'm just writing to let you know that I just contributed a good deal to it. The extra information, however, has weakened its sense of structure. I'd love your imput on what should be done next. --Jacquelyn Marie 21:06, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedians in MD

I just noticed that you are not only an ASL interpreter, but also a Marylander. I am both as well. Perhaps we should exchange contact info (or if you prefer, we can just chat via our User-talk pages). The Bearded One 22:11, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Sweet, click on the email this user and send me an email. Qaz ^(talk) 22:17, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

• Done. TTYL. The Bearded One 22:28, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circulations

IFABC/ifabc should be redirected to International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circulations. Sorry for the mess. ant_ie 19:09, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, you saved me the trouble of trying to figure out what that thing actually was which is what I was doing when you put up your message. Qaz ^(talk) 19:13, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] MOTSS

Thanks, Qaz for the welcome and especially being fair and not letting prejudice or intolerance be the deciding factors on which articles should be deleted. Please be just as fair with MOTOS, a current afd, as it is just as viable of a term as MOTSS. I did my best expound on the original articles which I am glad to see you took action on. Take care, have a grrreat weekend and see 'ya 'round TednAZ 08:41, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

I already voted on that one at least by the time I read your message anyway. Your welcome for the welcome. I like to try to welcome people when I can. Qaz ^(talk) 08:50, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome

Wow! That was quick! Thanks for the welcome! I've actually been here a while as an anon, so I know some of the ropes. Je suis le tenebreux 08:57, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

I just hate to see people who have been here for months but who have never been welcomed. Often I add a welcome to someone who obviously knows what they are doing by now but I just want to welcome them anyway. Qaz ^(talk) 09:03, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Antilocra II and III

Hi, thanks for your message. I figured that username problably had some history, the summaries are a giveaway as well. How do you suggest we deal with these users? --JoanneB 11:27, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

On User:Anilocra III the user apparently admits to being a banned user. Qaz ^(talk) 11:29, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Where The Heart Is

There's just no real rerason to delete it. I guess it's one of those things that is automatically redirected if typed into a search box, but that doesn't apply if someone were to make a link Where The Heart Is (if the redirect is deleted, you'll notice that link turn red). Even if there is no such link now, someone could make one. The general rule of thumb is that redirects are cheap, and just because something doesn't link via that redirect isn't a reason to delete it. It's by no means the most important decision I've made, but it's totally harmless and potentially useful, so there was really no valid reason for deletion. -R. fiend 11:31, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

The reason I put up the delete tag is because for some reason you can type in the name of the article in all lowercase and yet you still trigger the redirect which makes no sense and displays the name of the article in a way contrary to naming conventions at the top when you did not make that mistake. Try it out and see what I mean. Qaz ^(talk) 11:35, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

I see, but I really don't see how it matters. -R. fiend 16:50, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank You

btw, have you known of this: http://www.boker.org.il/english/newsignlanguage.htm

No, I had not heard of this case yet. I have heard of the one in South America of course but not this one. Thanks for posting it here. Qaz ^(talk) 05:32, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] TOP SCIENTISTS

Thanks for the cleanup of the article.I was going to attempt it over in a few days but really appreciate your help.And it is not a copyright violation as only the names have been cited and not the text.JK

Your welcome. The article --Top 1000 Scientists: From the Beginning of Time to 2000 AD-- is going to need a lot of work because of that list. The reason is that the names are in alphabetical order (by last name) in the list as it appears now and they do not match our article naming conventions. This means you have to use an editing trick to fix each and every entry. You can see when you press edit how I had to use a pipe in order to get the link to show the name one way and link to something else. When using a pipe what comes first is where it really links to and after the pipe is what is shown on the page. I would be glad to have some help as it is a long list. I was even thinking of not including the list at all in the article. Qaz ^(talk) 08:01, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Not including the list would take care of that persons copyvio concerns too. Qaz ^(talk) 08:04, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!I realise what you say now.You can see I am new to Wikipedia and would very much welcome your help and guidance.I happen to be a law grad as well so know that there are no copyright violations here.Names by definition cannot be copyrighted;ony text can invite sanctions.The book contains a voluminous biographical note on each entry and would have invited sanctions had I included them rather than the names.I think most if not all the netries have already an article here.The list I feel is necessary as people would want to know the names.I await your advice.JK

I hope I have reassured you about the copyright aspect.To be doubly sure I consulted one of my seniors and he concurs.eg.you can browse thru the Nobel winners site(or for that matter american academy of arts and sciences site as it is regarded as second mostt prestigious)and include all the names-but not the text.JK I would be dlighted to help-but would appreciate guidance.I am also concerned about vanadalism-someone may wish to insert more names which would b e inappropriate.Do you feel a subtitle like SCIENTISTS ROLL OF HONOR would be proper?JK

I have resumed editing the list of names (many links to fix). I just lost the changes to about 6 names because of a careless click with my mouse *grrr* but anyway, I will help you to clean this article up. Although you are certainly free to edit and participate in Wikipedia I encourage you to register here so that your effort can be credited to you should you ever in the future want to become more involved with Wikipedia or even if you want your voice to be given more weight in votes and such if you ever find reason to participate in them here. Qaz ^(talk) 06:51, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

BTW, you should ad to the article more about how the author selected the people. For example, who exactly did he poll, just faculty, faculty and students, just science departments, whole university ... I could go on with this. You get the idea. Qaz ^(talk)

Thanks.According to the book the author polled the science faulty.I am a little worried about editing now as I fear I may end up vandalising.I shall register today and watch out for the technique you follow before trying out my hand at editing.Thanks once again.JK 13th Oct.2005

I get the technique now how to edit.Sorry for giving you so much trouble and thanks for your patience.I shall try assisting you with some competence now.,JK 19th Oct.

Glad to hear you are getting the hang of it. Do not worry about troubling me. Everyone starts off as a newbie. I am also glad to hear you will register. I am sure you will be a pro in no time. Qaz ^(talk) 07:28, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

I just was intimated of a major error I have committed-while copying the names,I inadvertantly missed out one-Joseph LAGRANGE(1766-1813).I am sorry!It was a major error on my part.I am scared to effect any modification as it may appear to be vandalistic and would very much appreciate your help.As the name appears in the book,I think it would have to be included.Do I have to prepare the list all over again? And I double checked with the senior partner at my law firm-in a book that is about 400 pages long listing the proper names is in no way suggestive of copyright violation as Dream guy has suggested.JK 19th November 2005

[edit] Your RFA

You're quite welcome, and thank you for your kind words. --Merovingian (t) (c) 11:47, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

I haven't seen the movie, but I certainly understand the reference.  :) --Merovingian (t) (c) 11:57, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations. I missed it on my talk page because you forgot to sign. CambridgeBayWeather 06:02, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words. I will beat the editcountitis, and you will make a good administrator!--Alhutch 00:52, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Near Vertical Incidence Skywave

Hey, I cleaned-up the Near Vertical Incidence Skywave page to make it appropriate for Wikiepdia. I removed the Wifi stuff, and added a simple explanation of what NVIS really is.

basically, NVIS is a radio propogation mode that is especially useful in communicating over the horizon in circumstances where VHF isn't useful. Sometimes you want to communicate with a station on shortwave thats too far for groundwave and too far for traditional skywave. This is called the skip zone. So, basically, NVIS allows you to communicate into the skip zone. This is useful for emergency or mmilitary applications.

I have no idea where the fellow was going when he wrote it, but you may want to take another look at it and see what I did.

Roodog2k (Hello there!) 16:45, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

I changed my vote to keep. Thank you for cleaning up that mess. Qaz ^(talk) 17:36, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! Roodog2k (Hello there!) 21:23, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rational Recovery

Hi- Many thanks! David Justin 00:45, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Your welcome. Qaz ^(talk) 01:43, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ejaculation (grammar)

Thanks for the comments on my user talk page. I certainly don't take offense! I'm delighted someone else is interested in working on the article. See User:Andrewa/creed.

However, let me explain what I meant by saying "in English". These are (were) both examples taken from English. It isn't assumed that just because this is English Wikipedia that everything we talk about will also be English, far from it, we have an article on the German language for example, and one of the examples in the verb article is taken from Spanish or Portuguese, unfortunately it doesn't say which!

I think that the verb article would be improved a great deal if more actual examples from other languages were given, this has been the custom in most linguistics books I have seen.

Similarly, we should add examples from several languages to the article on ejaculations, IMO. The French ben (pronounced as a very short postnasalised bah) is the best example I can think of outside of English. I can't see that the English examples shouldn't stay too, but if you found them confusing then ipso facto they were. See if you can do better. Andrewa 03:09, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

I agree wholeheartedly about not everything having to be about English even though it is in English. It was the sentence structure more than anything that confused me. It seemed to be a comment out of nowhere just saying that yes, this is English. With more context it would be fine and as you point out, provide an improvement. Qaz ^(talk) 04:31, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Root32

Does it not take just a bit more than someone saying they own it to remove a copyvio? As can be seen I post from Canada and what's to stop me claiming to be Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet and anything published in the Globe and Mail can be put on Wikipedia (or something a little more sensible)? CambridgeBayWeather 13:36, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

As far as I understand it, it is enough to stop a speedy. It can still be sent to afd where the standards are a little different. To stop a copyvio speedy though I think all you need is a claim of ownership much like you only need a claim of notablity to stop a nn-bio speedy. In both cases, they may die in the AfD process though where things are vetted a bit more. If you find I am wrong, straighten me out on this please. Qaz ^(talk) 13:48, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

I didn't really know as I've never seen anyone claim ownership of a speed copyvio. I'm tired and it's almost quitting time 7:50 am and it's -20 outside. CambridgeBayWeather 13:50, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] re: Adville

It sure looks like a long list of ads but it could be a useful item. If it was limited to the top 2 or 3 per country it wouldn't be so bad but things like the addition of root32 which are probably not notable don't help it. I supect that anyone removing things is likely to start an edit war. CambridgeBayWeather 13:49, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I can see it being useful if it restricted itself to one or two... possibly the top three in each country but it is getting out of hand over there at DSL around the world -- Qaz ^(talk) 13:53, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 05:33, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

I'll add my congratulations also. Hear hear!! The Bearded One 06:00, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Ditto - well done. Dlyons493 Talk 07:02, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Congrats from me too. No probs with the support. (I left replying to your earlier "thanks" message until I new the outcome - although I don't think there was much doubt). Grutness...wha? 07:47, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Hi Qaz. Just wanted to thank you for supporting my RfA. I hope I'm able to live up to the confidence placed in me. Oh, and congratulations on your own success. --Cyberjunkie | Talk 03:44, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Administrator

Within a week or so you will feel right at home with the extra tools. What you can do is continue on the trend that have made you a successful candidate for the job. After reading Wikipedia:Administrators' how-to guide and Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list, play extra special attention to the Recent Changes section and take appropriate action: revert vandalism (that will be easy with the roll back button), warn editors, block IPs and users and welcome newbies. Also, try to place on your watchlist the following pages: Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism, Wikipedia:Vandalism in Progress and Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard. The following links should also be helpful (you could place them on your userpage like I have):

• Block user
• List of blocked users
• Untagged Images
• AFD
• Special:Newpages
• Special:New Images.

Try also to stay in discussions. Vote on RFAs and make your voice heard on talkpages. I was a bit confused at first, but after a few practise, I felt right at home. Hope that helps. Good luck. Now, going back on My Wikibreak :). Orane (t) (c) (@) 19:00, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Popups tool

Congratulations on being made an admin! I thought you might like to know of a javascript tool that may help in your editing by giving easy access to many admin features. It's described at Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups. The quick version of the installation procedure for admins is to paste the following into User:Qaz/monobook.js:

// [[User:Lupin/popups.js]] - please include this line 

document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="' 
             + 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lupin/popups.js' 
             + '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s"></script>');

popupShortcutKeys=true; // optional: enable keyboard shortcuts
popupAdminLinks=true;   // optional: enable admin links

There are more options which you can fiddle with listed at Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups. Give it a try and let me know if you find any glitches or have suggestions for improvements! Lupin|talk|popups 23:24, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] CBW RfA

Just a quick word of thanks for voting on my RfA. If you have any concerns over my actions please let me know. CambridgeBayWeather 23:18, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject on Sign language, Deaf culture, and deafness

Hi, I am writing you in regards to a proposed WikiProject I am a part of: User:Ntennis/Deaf WikiProject proposal. You have previously contributed to/ expressed interest in Deaf related articles and thus we thought you might be interested in participating in our WikiProject. If you are, please add your name to the list at either User:Ntennis/Deaf WikiProject proposal or Wikipedia:Wikiproject/List of proposed projects#Deaf and give your input! Thank you! Gaep13^(talk) 04:26, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sun tan link

Just to tell you the suntan link on your user page links to a disambiguation page now. The page you are after is Sun Tanning. Matthew kokai 05:35, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Child of Deaf Adult

I have noticed that you are affiliated with sign language in one way or another. The article on CODAs needs quite a bit of work, and I think is an important article to have as a part of Wikipedia. I would like to invite you to participate in making it a better article. — Esprit15d 19:59, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

I am not a CODA myself so I am not sure what I could add to that article. Qaz 21:29, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] As Good as It Gets

Hi Qaz, good work on writing up the plot for the movie! You seem to have covered almost everything. I was struck by this line "..the amazing intelligence and charisma of Verdell." It is speculation as to what it was that attracted Melvin to the dog, but was it intelligence ? Can you elaborate on the charisma and intelligence part of the story. Jay 16:51, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Upon review I think you are right that I overstated a bit in that sentence. Feel free to tone it down or revise it. Qaz 21:31, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Redir test

Hi, Qaz!

First of all congratulations for your editor's work.

If you don't mind my saying so, shouldn't your Redir test be removed ? I suppose it is just a forgotten remain of your apprentice days.

Best regards,

--Hgfernan^Msg 15:32, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

I took it down. Thanks for notifying me of the existance of that. Qaz 21:35, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] idioms paper

Dear QAZ,

If you're interested and have a few minutes, you might want to take a look at the following (a really good paper, one of the best I've read recently)

http://lingo.stanford.edu/sag/papers/idioms.pdf

--62.40.80.246 18:04, 7 August 2006 (UTC)