User talk:RJHall

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These are archive links to copies of my talk page just prior to a cleanup. 18 March 2005 3 July 2005 14 Dec 2005 14 May, 2006 13 July 2006 21 October 2006

Contents 1 Fixing George Washington Danville page. 2 Bellevue 3 Peer Review: Switzerland 4 Orion Nebula 5 Science Collaboration of the month 6 Vancouver 7 Survey Q 8 LOC Classification fix 9 State terrorism in Syria 10 Featured Article: Vancouver 11 GW High Student Population 12 Smiley Award 13 Reverting My Edits 14 Sirius 15 Science Collaboration of the month 16 C6H- 17 FAC of Bacteria 18 Battle of Crete ref 19 Your GA nomination of Tau Ceti 20 Nature 21 FA?

[edit] Fixing George Washington Danville page.

Do you know how to get rid of the cut of line around the first line of every paragraph? I would appreciate it if you would help me remove it! Thanks.-Robin4084

[edit] Bellevue

--Kraftlos 20:59, 7 December 2006 (UTC) I went down the history of the Bellevue WA article and it appears that you were the first person to contribute to the history section. I was just curious where you got the information, because I was interested having the page referenced (and because I'm translating the article for the Spanish Wikipedia). Not that it's entirely your fault, because at least 20 other people did the same thing, but the page looks bad with no citations.

--Kraftlos 19:48, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Actually I used the external links at the end of the page, which I added in at about the same time. I live there, so I'm a little familiar with the history. I'll add this to my to-do list, and try to get some proper inline citations added. — RJH (talk) 21:03, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, so do I. I couldn't find any of your history additions in those links, so am I correct in assuming those websites have changed? Or did you write most of it yourself? (I'm surprised that the city of bellevue doesn't have any history on its website). Also I found some corporate website that ripped the entire wikipedia article off and put it on their site.

I've been a wikipedia addict for about 2 years, but now I'm really getting addicted to editing it.  :-/ Nice to meet you and hope to hear from you soon.

[edit] Peer Review: Switzerland

Hi, I'm new to Wiki and have been looking for areas to contribute to. One section that was suggested was peer reviews. So, I went to the Switzerland peer review, where I you had already made the review. As a newbie, I don't know if it is OK to provide answers to your comments (ie. under your comment or in another paragraph below yours) or if commenting on your comments is not allow/prefered in the peer review section (ie. Zug is the name of the canton & Zug is then name of the captial city, same for Zurich/Zurich, Geneva/Geneva, and a few others). Thought I'd ask here before making changes that are not appropriate. Thanks, Minimia 19:11, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes I think that is quite appropriate. Please do contribute your comments to the peer reviews. — RJH 19:15, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orion Nebula

Give me your email, and I'll forward the O'Dell email being cited at Orion Nebula. WilliamKF 17:29, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I thought you might say that. I've created a one use email to start our communication. Please email me at emailaddress to start the email discussion. Thanks. WilliamKF 19:16, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Science Collaboration of the month

You voted for Gene and this article is now the current Science Collaboration of the Month! Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia science article.

NCurse _work 07:46, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vancouver

I have answered some of your inquiries relating to Vancouver's Featured Article Review. Please review the changes and let me know if they're enough. Mkdw^talk 02:04, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Survey Q

Have you ever been to the southern hemisphere? respond here Deadline is December 15th. AstroBoy 02:06, 11 November 2006 (UTC) Dude, my favorite subject is astronomy too.

[edit] LOC Classification fix

RJHall -- Thank you for removing the concerns on the LOC pages. I'll keep fleshing them out. I just hope that you and User:Seraphimblade don't get into a wrangle. He thinks they are unnecessary listcruft. NielsenGW 18:24, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. Yes I hope so too. Deletion actions do seem to bring out some strong opinions in people. — RJH (talk) 18:28, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] State terrorism in Syria

This is an article you had onceupon a time involved in. Some questions have come up See here ThanksRaveenS

[edit] Featured Article: Vancouver

Thank you for your recommendations in regards to Vancouver on its FAC. On November 22, 2006 the article became a featured article thanks to helpful tips and suggestions by users like you. Thank you again on behalf of the editors and members of the WikiProject Vancovuer. Mkdw^talk 00:44, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GW High Student Population

sorry to say this,but GW doesn't have that many students. Trust me it's aprox.1,200Template:Robin4084

[edit] Smiley Award

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[edit] Reverting My Edits

I don't understand how removing comments about "white emo jews" and "the running of the jews" is censorship. The article is practically patent nonsense. I'm going to at least remove the PAs. If you have an issue with this, kindly take it up on the article's talk page. Thanks. →Bobby← 16:24, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm unclear as to why the issue is not obvious. Blanking out an article to which you have personal objections so that it can not be read by others is clearly censorship. Yes I do see that those specific comments are offensive. — RJH (talk) 16:29, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm concerned with the integrity of the encyclopedia as well as the personal attacks. In my mind, nothing was lost from the encyclopedia by removing the blatently false prose. Anyone on the AfD debate can easily check the history for themself. I've no taken the time to remove comments that could be seen as personal attacks from the article, while leaving the non-offensive nonsense in tact. →Bobby← 16:35, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't have a problem with the removal of individual, unconfirmed and clearly false statements that are not backed up by referencees. I do have an issue with the an entire article being blanked in the middle of an AfD just because you took offense. But no matter. I guess we just have different views on censorship. — RJH (talk) 16:40, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

I admit that I was probably a little brash to blank the article. After reading through the first few paragraphs and seeing nothing but outright lies and two personal attacks against jewish folks, I decided to cut the whole thing and let editors participating in the AfD check the history for themselves. In retrospect, I should have just taken the extra five minutes to filter only the offensive comments out. I apologize for my overreaction, and thank you for calling me on it. →Bobby← 16:47, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

I thank you for that and I don't doubt but that the article will be summarily tossed once the votes are in. (Or else that it will be heavily re-written.) — RJH (talk) 16:52, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sirius

It's a reach, and I can full well understand if you want to remove the banner. Basically, (1) I'm adding the banner to all articles that fall in the scope of the project, to ensure as many articles as possible get assessed (Dogs does assessment), and (2) Sirius is called the "dog star", and linked to some older legends relating to dogs, which legends do fall within the project's scope. The article is also specifically mentioned on one of the lists from, although I can't remember specifically which one right now. I was considering adding the similar banner to Canis Major, Canis Minor, and Canes Venatici as well, but thought I might well get a response from just the one. I can understand if you would want to remove it, particularly here, but would be interested in knowing in any event regarding whether you would have similar objections to inclusion on the two Canis constellations. Badbilltucker 17:37, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Ah, okay. I have no problem with the banner then; I just didn't see the connection. — RJH (talk)

[edit] Science Collaboration of the month

You voted for Gene and this article is now the current Science Collaboration of the Month! Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia science article.

NCurse _work 17:10, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Actually I didn't vote for gene. But thanks for letting me know. :-) — RJH (talk) 18:19, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] C6H-

Would this fit in this page? List of molecules in interstellar space Negatively Charged Space Molecules Discovered, thanks, CarpD (^_^) 1/12/06

It looks like HC6 is already on the list. I'm not sure if the difference is due to a configuration change. *shrug* — RJH (talk) 16:31, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, the only thing significant is that is it the first negatively charged molecule. So, maybe there should be an extra note on that or a duplicate with a negative symbol. At least, that's what I think could be added. CarpD (^_^) 4/12/06

Just let you know, I am unfamilar with chemestry and astrochemestry. So, I may not be the best person to make notes on that. I can add the reference to the bottom for the C6H- molecue, though. thanks, CarpD 04/12/06

[edit] FAC of Bacteria

An editor has made some major changes to this article, could you please return to the FAC and provide some feedback on whether or not these are an improvement? TimVickers 21:19, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Battle of Crete ref

Hello, thank you for your message. I haven't been on wiki lately. Well, if you would like a reference you can find it on The Lost Battle, Crete 1941 by Callum Macdonald on page 197 of that book.The book can be found in the references at the bottom of the article. Callum Macdonald writes the following about Kurt Student: "After the war, he admitted that the hours before dawn were the longest of his life: "I waited with my pistol continuously by my side, ready to use it on myself, if the worst came to the worst." The quote can also be found in Crete 1941:Eyewitnessed. Thanks for letting me know, and good luck on improving the article. Regards, Periklis* 02:22, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your GA nomination of Tau Ceti

The article Tau Ceti you nominated as a good article has passed , see Talk:Tau Ceti for eventual comments about the article. Good luck in future nominations. Shimeru 22:49, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nature

RJ, are you the one responsible for having cleaned up the last paragraph of "Matter and energy" (thereby likely saving it from permanent elimination)? ... Kenosis 02:21, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Actually I'm not completely sure. I know I made some changes to that section, but I don't know if it is the revision to which you refer. Was there something you had in mind? Thanks. — RJH (talk) 15:25, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

I think the issue's already been addressed-- I don't remember taking the last chunk of Platonic philosophy out completely. But it's gone now and closer to the point of the section than it was before. And thanks for your repeated and diligent attention to the article. ... Kenosis 16:35, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Oh sure thing. I know you've contributed quite a bit to that article, so I think you deserve much more of the credit. All I'm trying to do is get it up to GA. Thanks. — RJH (talk)

[edit] FA?

Why are you not submitting History of supernova observation as a featured article candidate? Is it not comprehensive? Samsara (talk • contribs) 01:55, 17 December 2006 (UTC)