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[edit] DYK
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[edit] Metropolis disambiguation links
Right, the idea is that too many links besides the ones called "Metropolis" would be too confusing for people. The exception is if it is a redlink, so that if, for example, someone wanted to write that Metropolis (utopia) article they would have a place to start (in this case King C. Gillette). It's all explained here. Recury 16:31, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] First generation computer
I saw your prod on First generation computer [1], where you recommended that the article be deleted, then have the same article redirect to History of computing hardware. The redirect is a very good idea. However, you don't need to prod the article to make the article redirect to another. I'm fairly certain that making the page redirect to an existing article is not controversial in any way, shape, or form, so I went ahead and redirected the page, skipping the prod step. -- ShinmaWa(talk) 23:45, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Scientist Box
Check this out [2]
Also please add your comments you wrote at Von Neumann talk here: [3]
[edit] Talk at top
No problem, and sorry for the overreaction (the problem with edit summaries is you can't edit them if you decide you need to). Thanks for the message. MrBook 14:52, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Uncited tag in Jennings article
I put the "uncited" tag because if the source is Ken Jennings' website/messageboard/etc., someone needs to cite that as being the source of that assertion. Andy Saunders 17:37, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Succession Box
I don't think there is a guideline, but per se, although there is a project here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Succession Box Standardization. It isn't really recomended that entertainment figures get their own boxes anyway, it's mainly for monarchys and political sucessions, to have a show that only had 2 hosts, there isn't much of a sucession. I think it just clutters things quite a bit, in the pro wrestling wikiproject, we have deleted any succession boxes for titles on sight. Tony fanta 21:41, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Infobox
Trying to reach an infobox consensus here: [4]. Please can you weigh-in with your opinion? 129.127.28.3 12:06, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Removed message
The removed message was part of general spamming from that user of the same message to many pages in violation of WP:SPAM. JoshuaZ 05:01, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Von Neumann
Hello Robert. It may be that the publications in the Von Neumann references section mention his preemptive strike opinion, as well as others. Even so, the article decription of each opinion/statement (or at least some of them) needs to be explicitly tied to the publication(s) with a citation... You seem active on this article, so I'll just leave it to you and other active editors to bring it in line with current standards. I understand most of it was taken from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, but our standards have evolved and the article needs to evolve with them. JDG 01:54, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Infobox Fields
Thank you for casting your vote on the Einstein infobox. Please now go to [5] to give your opinion on how you want the individual fields modified. SuperGirl 08:21, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Belt picture
It looks like it was a cache issue. It's been fixed. Andy Saunders 15:49, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Positive Airway Pressure
You tagged this article as limited geographic scope, but provided no explanation of the defects you allege. I strongly believe that the editor placing this type of tag should explain on the talk page, so I removed the tag. I admit that I am mystified: The medical facts and principles of machine design are not likely to be different in Bangalore than in Bangor, and prescribing and insurance information is peripheral and unlikely ever to be exhaustive. If you wish to replace the tag, please explain on the talk page in some detail. Robert A.West (Talk) 23:48, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image:Martinez winner.jpg
Done. Apologies for the error. - Best regards, Mailer Diablo 04:32, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] DirectShow
Hi, I'm working on an improved structure for categorization of Windows components. As it stands, "Windows multimedia" was being used for a wide range of nearly unrelated things, including third-party software, file formats, video card drivers, audio APIs, themes, fonts, etc. For the time being, it's in Category:DirectX which is part of Category:Windows components. Thanks. -/- Warren 19:18, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Reliable source schmeliable source
I trust your psychic abilities, but can't we just wait until each show airs on TV? Winners are not intended to be known to the general TV audience before airing. Let's keep it that way. Unless you have a compelling feeling to surprise and spoil readers, in which you should provide sources (other prerecorded reality programs are vigilant in requiring external references for future shows), let the series continue on its course. Tinlinkin 06:24, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Portholes" in Jeopardy! set
Hey Robert, it's Faith Love. The portholes I mentioned were a bunch of little round windows, all lined up in a grid pattern, with white plexi or something instead of glass. My episodes are on a Tivo that isn't working right now, so I can't double check them, but my recollection is that they were to the left of the cameras, over behind Johnny Gilbert. I don't remember noticing that they'd gone away until I went to the Tournament of Champions, so they were most likely only visible in the studio and therefore a moot point for the purposes of this article. :)
Lusciousmango 12:59, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Requesting entire J! Archive question subjects
I talked to Andy about this and he directed me to you. I'd like to get a copy of the entire J! Archive of responses, as part of our Missing Encyclopedia Articles project. We would use this list to determine what content is still missing from the encyclopedia. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here is our Missing Article project page.
If you have the entire list of correct responses saved together, I can work on converting it into a list usable in Wikipedia; I have a lot of experience doing this with several lists from other sources. If you have immediate access to this list, in whatever form it may be (even if it contains "What is..." in front of every response), please save it at User:Brian0918/J! Archive list so that I can work on it. Thanks. — BRIAN0918 • 2006-11-26 02:49Z
[edit] All the Young Dudes
Hi Robert. I see you've capitialised all occurrences of 'the' in All the Young Dudes (song) and even moved the page to All The Young Dudes (song). If you check Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Album titles and band names) you'll see that the definite article is not capitalised in the middle of a song title. Just letting you know why I'll be reverting those two changes shortly (or you might like to). That said, thanks for disambiguating Ian Hunter (singer)...! Cheers, Ian Rose 09:39, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
- No prob, mate. I did the same thing myself when I first got here - I've always tended to capitalise all words in song/album titles and a lot of media does the same. However, these are the Wikipedia conventions and since there is method to it I go with it and try to ensure standardisation wherever I can. BTW, that doesn't mean you can't suggest changes to the guidelines - but I never had a big issue with this one. Anyway, I'll bet Hunter was good live. Happy editing and don't be a stranger...! Cheers, Ian Rose 10:49, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] B&H
Can you verify that? - crz crztalk 02:55, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
- That's better than I expected - but clearly not good enough for the article or certainly for DYK... But it is a curious fact, I agree. Judaism owes Hasidim a debt of gratitude for ferociously clinging to Orthodoxy, and thereby preserving it for future generations, even as everyone else around them was modernizing, equivocating, reforming, and capitulating to the "inevitability" of "modern times". Now, so many decades later, they're still clinging. They won't even hire some gentiles to run it on Shabbos - probably what I would have done. That's commitment! - crz crztalk 12:09, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Have you run into sysop Ian Manka? He lost on Jeopardy as well... - crz crztalk 21:43, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
- LOL... by as well I was jokingly referring to your recent edit to I Lost On Jeopardy :) - crz crztalk 22:02, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wikimedia Foundation
Yep, you got it... someone changed the image in the last diff to the article and then someone added an inappropriate image to a template, so I mixed up one for the other and reverted the wrong one... sigh! Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 02:21, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] DYK
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Hello Robert and thanks for the article. Keep up the good work. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:09, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Disambig MoS
I kinda like more links, actually, so I don't follow that guideline strictly. There's no harm in them, none that I have ever seen. - crz crztalk 03:01, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
- I'm going to poke my nose in here ... there is a down-side to many extra links on a dab page. There is a popup feature that makes fixing links to dab pages much easier than fixing them by hand and the extra links confound the popup, making it much more difficult to use the feature. A second aspect to this matter is that there has been a looong standing tension between 'navigators' and 'explorers' when it comes to dab pages; at the present time guidelines and prevailing sentiment favor the 'navigators' (I am a 'navigator' myself, by way of disclosure) who in turn favor clean paths through dab pages (usually one major topical link per line - sometimes two, rarely two blue links, more commonly one red and one blue - but both topical). I can fully understand the 'explorer' who would want to use the dab page as a tool for branching exploration of topic-space ... but that is not the direction the prevailing sentiment is blowing. Regards, --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 04:42, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Holocaust Article
Hello, You recently reverted my edit of Holocaust. Did you consider it to be vandalism? Repentance 20:49, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Broken Links
Thanks for fixing it. It's actually a dire issue with the template; most instances, it does not required the square brackets & works just fine. Could you please bring it up? Maybe on the template's talk page?100110100 06:02, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
- No it is not. It is discordant with the other templates: the other templates DO NOT require square brackets: instantly blue link with the template. In any case, there is seriously a problem, a bug in Mediawiki? that would cause discordances in it's effect.100110100 06:15, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
