User talk:Ryanaxp

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hi there. Welcome to Wikipedia! If you want, drop us a note at Wikipedia:New user log to introduce yourself.

I deleted your signature on the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology page. We don't sign our work here, since most articles are (or become) the product of work by lots of authors. To find out who wrote something, just look at the history of the page.

If you need editing help, visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page. For format questions, visit our manual of style. You can use the Show preview button before you save, to make sure your edits do what you intended.

You can sign your name on talk pages by using " ~~~ " for your username and " ~~~~ " for your username and a timestamp.

Some time when you're bored, you can read through our policies and guidelines.

If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. You can also drop me a question on my talk page.

Happy editing, Isomorphic 20:35, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

You appear to have added a page in Japanese language (I'm not going to try to create a reference to it). I assume this was meant to go to the japanese Wikipedia? DJ Clayworth 18:18, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Yep, sure did... Cluelessness made me put it in the English section, and as a newbie I'm not sure how to correctly move the page to the Japanese section. I'll search the FAQs, but if you know a quick way to move the page appropriately, please feel free to do so. Thanks, --Ryanaxp 18:32, Mar 16, 2004 (UTC)

It is moved to Chiben Gakuen Middle School now, however as it only contains japanese characters it is now listed on pages needing translation. andy 18:54, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hi. Some of what you wrote in Chu Nom appears to be copied from [1]. Please don't use copyrighted text in Wikipedia - it causes annoying legal issues. If you've copied anything else like that, please rewrite it or remove it. Thanks, Isomorphic 22:33, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Permission received from John Balaban, copyright owner of the copied text. See Talk:Chu Nom. --Ryanaxp 23:46, Mar 25, 2004 (UTC)

We actually have a separate wiki memorial for 9/11 victims, although you couldn't be expected to know that. You're right that we should avoid having wikilinks for people that we don't intend to include in the encyclopedia. Isomorphic 23:55, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

As Isomorphic says, there is a separate wikimemorial. There is also a loud and recurring debate over the threshold that should be used for inclusion of an article in the Wikipedia. See Wikipedia talk:Fame and importance. Many loudly remind us that "Wikipedia is not paper" and argue for universal inclusion. I personally believe that we need some level of filtering or our readers (including me) won't be able to find anything useful - a problem of sorting the wheat from the chaff. Jimbo's rules of NPOV (which most memorial sites have difficult at) and verifiability by an "average" Wikipedian approach the same problem from a different angle. As you have a chance to think about it, your thoughts and contributions to the debate would be appreciated. Rossami 02:09, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

RE: "Captializing" corrected to "Capitalizing". D'oh!!! Good catch. --Nate Silva 11:42, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)


Contents

[edit] Unverified images

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following images:

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 05:21, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.


[edit] Honda B20A engine

Good catch - almost! Thanks for the attention! --SFoskett 21:30, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Category usage

Please only apply the most applicable categories to an article. You added three very questionable ones to Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron: Category:Biographies, which is for articles about biographies, not articles about people; Category:American Revolution, which has a subcategory for Category:American Revolution people, though Fairfax appears to have played no role in the war and so would be an inappropriate addition even to that; and Category:Virginia, which is the base-level category for a state and to which no person should be added. I deleted the first two and changed the third to Category:Virginia history. Please take the time to find the best category for an article before you apply any. Thanks! Postdlf 05:28, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I added categories after looking into them briefly, and determining whether they seemed relevant to Lord Fairfax. While my determinations may have been not the very best, they were in good faith. As always, be bold in updating and many thanks for your careful attention! --Ryanaxp 12:27, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Images

You may not be aware, but you can use the images from commons: rather than uploading new images to ga:. You need only reference the original file name. Although the image name may be English or whatever language in which it was originally created, at least it prevents unnecessary space on the servers from being used. It is what the commons: is designed for. See commons:Image:BlasonSUISSE.PNG ℬastique▼talk 15:15, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] SGI

Its an Indy also, had it since new. Some bastard, however, swiped ALL the external peripherals; so I've got the box, a replacement Indycam, keyboard and mouse, and a Philips TFT attached by a crap convertor widget... I'm currently awaiting a replacement PROM watchdog so I can get IRIX booting again.

Yeah, my Irish is actually pretty OK, but I'm absolustely useless at grammar. Its mainly from being able to read and understand spoken Donegal Irish; the few times anyone speaks it up at home anymore.

'Order of magnitude more useless' - hah, that sounds like my Sun... --Kiand 22:59, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Europe in American Revolution

A while back you added a section on European participation in the American Revolutionary War. The revision includes a note that has bothered me for a while. It reads:

French military involvement in the war proved decisive, though disastrous for the French economy. France's standing army at the time is estimated to have been some 100,000, many of whom made up the bulk of all combatants during the American Revolutionary War. In Europe, the war was often regarded as a scuffle between the poorer part of the British military and European Continental forces rather than a war for American Independence.

From a global perspective, this may be true. France and England sparred in the Caribbean, Medierranean, and as far afield as India. But, in terms of forces in North America, it just isn't true. I've tried to re-write this several times but I'm still having trouble with it. My main problem is that it leaves the (IMHO) incorrect impression that the French army was more important than the Americans. However, the European view might be important to understanding the history. Can you give me any cites (or websites) that might help me understand that European viewpoint? Thanks. Lou I 16:03, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] George Mason logo redesign

Re: "Rapid expansion" -- it was an attempt to put in neutral terms the reason for the logo redesign. Here's the original quote from the alumni magazine's Web site:

"To reflect the dynamic place George Mason has become, the university unveiled its new logo this fall. The new logo replaces the previous logo of the university's name with a bar over it, which was designed in 1982." - [2]

It would stand to reason that the university has become a "dynamic place" because of the rapid growth in enrollment it has experienced, necessitating the logo change. In the article I changed it back to say "changes" to be even more neutral if that works for you.

- Omaryak 18:57 20 Jul 2005 (EDT)

[edit] BeBox and ARC; BeBox and NT.

Hi,

you said that BeBox is able to running ARC and so on Windows NT.

There is no such affirmation on internet, and the BeBox's firmware isn't ARC (is very more simply) and is only able to run PEFFs (so you cannot use the IBM's ARC disk).

Can you prove what you said?

Until that I removed that affirmation and the image from ARC, see it's talk.

—Claunia 05:52, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for contributing to Girl!

An Award
For your contributions to the CotW focusing on Girl in September, 2005, I, Mamawrites, award you, Ryanaxp, this THANK YOU.

[edit] Image:Akbar and jeff reduced.gif

You don't happen to remember which collection you sourced the image from, do you? Page number would be nice too, if that's not pushing it. Images should have a source of the scan as well, as well as copyright information. Good work in reducing the resolution though, ta. Steve block talk 21:23, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Never mind I'm an idiot and I spotted the website source you provided, apologies. Steve block talk 21:25, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Area Code 703 map

Thanks for creating the area code map for Area code 703. I have used it (giving you credit) as the basis for A.C. maps for 276, 434, 540, 757 and 804.

[edit] Romanian origins

Hello Ryanaxp,

Could I, please, have the source of the image: [3]

Thanks, Dpotop 20:16, 13 December 2005 (UTC)


Indeed, I am interested in the source of the information that you pictured in that image. As no original research is allowed on wikipedia, I presume you created a visual representation of information that is otherwise available. Could you' please, give me the source of that information? (a book, an article, etc.). User:Dpotop
Actually, I find that the map lacks explanations. I believe it presents one of the theories on the formation of the Romanian language/people, but most of its features are left undocumented. I would be willing to try to find the source and get the missing info, but I have no clue whatsoever as to where to start searching. Can you find who uploaded the first image, the one that has been deleted?Dpotop 15:00, 14 December 2005 (UTC)


[edit] GMU Alumnus?

Not sure if you are, but if so, feel free to add to your User page: Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: George Mason University

Thanks! Hiberniantears 16:51, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging Image:Edencentral01.jpg

Warning sign
This image may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading Image:Edencentral01.jpg. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the image, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created the image yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the image on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the image yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the image also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture then you can use {{GFDL}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the image qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as {{fairusein|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other images, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of image pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Stan 05:53, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

I didn't actually write the message text, it's part of the boilerplate for all this; you should address the author of it, or tweak it yourself. It doesn't really matter whether you feel like complying, the image is on a seven-day countdown and will disappear unless somebody intervenes to save it - the "no source" categories have been getting pretty energetically emptied out. Stan 14:24, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
When it comes down to it, I don't actually care that much about the opinions of people apparently incapable of following the simple instructions on the upload page. You want to avoid the ugly notices? Try uploading correctly. Stan 16:14, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
To put it another way, I've spent weeks of my time cleaning up after lazy people, who (unsurprisingly perhaps) seem content to have others do their work for them. By the way, your attempted image fixup is still wrong, but I wash my hands of it, you're on your own. Stan 16:23, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tonsil

Interesting section you added re Tonsillar crypts. Might I ask for some clarification on a few points though, see Talk:Tonsil - but I'm happy to be educated otherwise :-). David Ruben Talk 13:46, 15 February 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Source

Hi Ryan. What's your source for this image, Image:Romanian origins map.PNG? Recently, it has come under fire from User:MariusA, who calls it pseudo-scientific. Specifically, he stated that the part showing Albanians migrating into the Southern Balkans so late as the 5th---10th centuries AD is impossible on linguistic grounds. He claims that loans from Old Greek to Albanian date the Albanian presence adjacent to Greeks ca 300 BC.Alexander 007 17:10, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

I think the best place to respond for the benefit of everyone's further information is on Image talk:Romanian origins map.PNG. Alexander 007 01:49, 30 March 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Sweetest Day Edit

Hello Ryanaxp and thank you for your edit. The "Herbert Birch Kingston" story of the origin of "Sweetest Day" is a fake story. Mr. Kingston, although listed on the 1920 Cleveland Census as a "Confectioner" disappeared from that census after 1920. Mr. Kingston was NOT one of the 12 "Sweetest Day Committeemen" who planned the details of "Sweetest Day." In my original edit I thought it best to leave the fake story intact so that people could see more clearly exactly how the Industies are distorting the truth in order to sell product. In addition to being a most insidious type of MASS DECEPTION, Sweetest Day is also a multi-billion-dollar FRAUD. Is it really possible to be neutral on this topic? The Industries involved in this deception need to come clean in order to help restore CREDIBILITY; especially American Greetings and Hallmark. Thank you again! RT


Hello again Ryanaxp! Thank you again for your edit. However, we now have 2 subtitles which say basically the same thing:

The Candy Industry's Explanation

-and-

Confectioners and Holiday Greetings Industries' explanations regarding Sweetest Day

This seems a little confusing (and thank you for your explanation of scare quotes). The point is that the Industry story is false/distorted/inaccurate...in short a contrivance. The movie/slideshow clearly demonstrates this.

Also, why did you remove the link to the movie?

Best regards,

RT

[edit] DeskStation Technology

I have few questions about the DeskStation Technology article that you started. I have an old device from this company, that i need to get the data off, and it looks like it has proprietory connections. I was wondering if you worked for this company or knew someone who did. Can you please get in touch with me? You can email me from my user page. Thanks a lot. --kunjan1029 01:19, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../r/y/a/User_talk%7ERyanaxp_ee53.html"