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[edit] Olympic Games (bids)

Hi Seventy Three,

thanks very much for correcting my english - it isn't my first language - yes I forgot to translate some german words (e.g. "und")

Citius Altius Fortius

[edit] References

many thanks for organizing and formatting the references at cult and allegations against Sathya Sai Baba. Andries 19:09, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

No problem. SeventyThree(Talk) 17:17, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Edits to physics cats

Hi,

Could you please stop the edits to the physics categories, and join discussion in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Categories? A number of edits that you made were incorrect, and its getting tedious trying to clean them up. Also, please don't make any edits to math categories for a while either. linas 15:00, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Sure. Sorry about that - I guess I just got carried away. SeventyThree(Talk) 13:28, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Homeopathy

See reply Talk:Homeopathy.

[edit] Pune

Image:WikiThanks.png Thank you for your contribution at Pune.
Please keep it up!!!- P R A D E E P Somani (talk)
Feel free to send me e-mail.

[edit] La Gran Sabana

thanks for bringing it to my attention. I was looking around the Spanish Wikipedia at the time, found an article about this important geographic area in Venezuela, and decided to translate it into the English wikipedia. I forgot to translate it though, so thanks again for bringing it to my attention. I use my subpages now for translation so I won't do that anymore. --Revolución (talk) 03:27, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Not a problem - I wouldn't have a chance at translating it (I'm not even sure what language it is!) so I'm glad you can. Thanks. SeventyThree(Talk) 09:31, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy Delete

I have deleted User:SeventyThree\References as requested. Just let me know if you need anything. -- Psy guy (talk) 00:26, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! SeventyThree(Talk) 04:09, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Semantics

Thanks, I needed that help on the C discussion. User:69.178.31.177
No problem - anything else I can do to help, feel free to ask. On a related note, it's usual to sign anything you add to talk pages using ~~~~, which gives the user and time of the comment. SeventyThree(Talk) 17:03, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] eClerx

Thank you for making changes. I have pulled infomation from their website. Infact this is one of the highly reguarded private companies in analytics in Mumbai. I appreicate your help and since this I am in a learning curve I tender my apologies.

--Aravind Parvatikar 08:06, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Apologies accepted, not that they were necessary (or at least, not to me). Everyone here is on a learning curve, and I'm glad you recognise this - I'm on a learning curve, too. The joy of editing is that we don't need to be perfect. Hope you continue to add to and improve WP! SeventyThree(Talk) 17:26, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User nickname

Thank you for helping me to fix my signature!--Kevin Hanse (talk) 18:37, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

No problem. SeventyThree(Talk) 19:33, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Memo to self

Gahk, shared IP address blocked for 24 hours. Since this is the only page I can edit, a note to self:

  • Homeopathy needs most of the footnotes reformatted to use < ref >
  • Climbing needs external links tidying (checked 2 for spam already)

Ho hum, enforced mini-wikibreak it is! Time for bed. SeventyThree(Talk) 06:00, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Excellent work on Wikipedia:Templates with red links

Thank you for putting the subdividers throughout the new Wikipedia:Templates with red links pages! BD2412 T 15:28, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Glad it was appreciated, and thanks for the comment. I was slightly nervous about stepping all over "somebody else's" page - somehow non-namespace articles feel different to me. SeventyThree(Talk) 17:59, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hockey Logo categorizing

Hey, most of those logos you recategorized are not specifically hockey logos. The vast majority of them are used in all sports within a schools's athletic department. A few of them are simply the school's official shield/emblem. Anyway, I don't care, just letting you know. ccwaters 14:46, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

That makes things harder than I thought. I was trying not to move the school logos, but I obviously missed some. Almost all of the images were linked only from hockey pages, so I assumed that they were hockey-related logos - I guess I'll have to stick to more general categories from now onwards. Thanks for the heads-up! SeventyThree(Talk) 16:42, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Logo

Template:Logo has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you.--Esprit15d 19:36, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Underpopulated (Year) in Canada categories

I noticed your name in connection with the above. Q. Why do these cats even exist? Who can authorize deleting them? (I just think that this type of stuff will hang around forever unless someone knows how to clear it up). I don't think that there will be a population for single year cats.

Category:Underpopulated (Year) in Canada categories

Thanks for letting me vent. (Stormbay 22:03, 29 March 2006 (UTC))

Why do they exist? Because somebody (not me) decided that they were a good idea. I imagaine it was part of some misguided attempt at standardisation. I moved them into Category:Underpopulated (Year) in Canada categories to make Category:Underpopulated categories more usable.
Who can authorise deleting them? Any Administrator can delete them. The proper process is to go through Categories for Deletion - since there are so many similar ones, an 'umbrella' nomination would be better than nominating each category individually.
I fixed your syntax in your above comment - to link to a category, put a colon at the start (like this [[:Category:Underpopulated (Year) in Canada categories]] ). Without the colon (like this [[Category:Underpopulated (Year) in Canada categories]] ) the link disappears, and places the current page in the category. Another way to link to a category is to use a handy template called cat - typeing {{cat|Underpopulated (Year) in Canada categories}} gives Category:Underpopulated (Year) in Canada categories.
Also, you need 2 linebreaks to make a new paragraph. I still don't know the logic behind that!
And finally, welcome! I don't profess to know everything - but if you've got a question, feel free to ask me and I'll help if I can. SeventyThree(Talk) 20:55, 30 March 2006 (UTC)


Thanks for the detailed reply! The clues to syntax are very helpful and I am going to look at the category in more detail. I was just going to post an event in one of the years and discovered the whole "mess". Thanks again and I may take you up on asking more questions. (Stormbay 22:30, 30 March 2006 (UTC))
Glad to be of help. SeventyThree(Talk) 23:04, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia survey

Hi. I'm doing a survey of Wikipedia editors as part of a class research project. It's quick, anonymous, and the data will be made available to the Wikipedia community later this month. Would you like to take part? More info here. Thanks! Nonplus 00:49, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Logos

No problem mate, just doing my bit to help out Wikipedia. :) If only everyone used the templates aswell mate, lol. Peace ; GL3N 17:43, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk pages

Thanks! There seems to be no rule requiring the archiving of talk pages (see Wikipedia:Talk_pages#User_talk_pages. I have no current discussions ongoing, and anyone wishing to see previous talk can see the history, Thanks, For great justice. 21:23, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip! For great justice. 21:29, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
"Actively erasing personal messages without replying (if a reply would be appropriate or polite) will probably be interpreted as hostile...However, reverting such removals or redirects is not proper and may result in a block for edit warring" (taken from the page you linked to) (Ps I Did Not Fallow you to this page It is Just A Coincidence). Also I Am sorry for my actions on your user Page (The Official Policy Is Both of us Are Wrong) (Although I Re Wrote my warnings and didn’t revert myself Once. I Still Don't get why you removed my Apology from your talk page. You May not have any Current Discussions But you do have the Reoccurring problems with random users. I just get this felling that you are attempting to remove all evidence of conflicts you've had in the past and Several users have told you to stop that. This is an ongoing problem that won’t just go away because you remove content from your talk page. Ps you are 100% right that I had no right to return to you user page for a second warning because I was warned to stay out of it when I asked for advise. It’s just unseating because you NEVER respond to comments that are critical of your actions. Also Just becose it isn't a rule Dosn't Mean you should not do it--E-Bod 22:17, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure who that comment was aimed at, but I presume For great justice.. Anyway, thanks for pointing out that I shouldn't revert the blanking - I hadn't noticed that. I'll be more careful in future. SeventyThree(Talk) 22:28, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks For Cleaning UP Wikipedia:Removing warnings--E-Bod 22:17, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

No problem. There's a lot more to do before it gets to policy stage (as I'm sure you know), but I decided to clean up the less controversial bits of it. It's good to see somebody who's looked for previous discussions, rather than just jumping in and editing the policy pages. WP:BOLD is good, but caution is required for policy. Good luck with it! SeventyThree(Talk) 22:23, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Winzip-logo image

Hi,

thanks for the notice. The image was used in the WinZip article, in the erroneous belief that it was the WinZip software logo. As it turns out, instead, it is the *company* logo, and since we have no article about the company (WinZip Computing) the image is now unused. I don't know what the best solution would be. Maybe we could add the company article, but I don't think there's much to say about it except that it produces WinZip and a few other related applications. BTW, thanks for tagging the image for me. In retrospect it seems obvious that you can't claim fair *use* on something which is unused, but it didn't occur to me at first. --Gennaro Prota 11:19, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure the exact logic behind {orfu}, but I think it's more that fair use images are discouraged where free alternatives are availible, rather than because we can't claim fair use. Having said that, there's not alot you can do about logos, because they are fair use anyway. I'll categorise it as a company logo, and see if I can add the image to the winzip (program) article. Failing that, I'll have a look at Company notabliity and see if a stub on the company is acceptable. SeventyThree(Talk) 13:28, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
I see. OTOH, it may be easily seen that the image hasn't turned out very well. I guess we can let it go without worries. Please, don't waste too much of your time about this issue. --Gennaro Prota 19:46, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi again. Sorry, I replied *before* before seeing you had added the image to the WinZip article. I seize the occasion to clarify that my intent was just to avoid you wasted too much time to save an image which isn't probably worth it. (I'm not a native speaker so I'm often concerned that my English carries the intended meaning :)) Yours truly, --Gennaro Prota 19:59, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Well, I can't tell that you're not a native speaker, so assume the message got across. I didn't want the image to go to waste - if we've got it, we may as well use it. Not exactly in line with policy, but I don't think it's an issue. If you (or somebody else) decides it should go, I won't complain. SeventyThree(Talk) 20:05, 23 April 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Re:Battlestar GalacticA category talk

Hi 73 - you wrote: Hey. It looks like you deleted Category:Battlestar Galactica stubs yesterday, but left the talk page. Since the talk consists only of {{cleancat}}, I was wondering why you left it. Very simple really - stub cats rarely if ever have active talk pages, and I didn't notice that ths one had one. Since talk pages are deleted separately from the main pages, I, um... forgot :) It's gone now. Thanks! Grutness...wha? 06:05, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please look at the compromise

Hi! Please see my reasoning and act accordingly. FrankB 19:55, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi again! I put up some answers for you Cfd:ebooks. FrankB 06:21, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] morton plant hospital

Thanks for adding the category tag. Does adding tag automatically populate Category:Hospitals in Florida, or do you have to added the name to the category page? Thanks, User:Mikereichold | User_talk:Mikereichold 01:13, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

It automatically adds the page to Category:Hospitals in Florida. That's part of the magic of categories! It sometimes takes a few minutes to show up, but it's all automatic. SeventyThree(Talk) 01:20, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Super and thank you.User:Mikereichold | User_talk:Mikereichold 01:40, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] JGrespan

Just delete the thing then! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JesseH (talk • contribs) .

I'm not an admin, so I can't delete the image. SeventyThree(Talk) 20:10, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] speedy delete

I didn't think anyone would be interested in discussing them. Oh well, live and learn. I bet someone tells me I should have speedy deleted them though. I've put them up the usual way -- ProveIt (talk) 23:53, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

They probably will point that out, but if they've not been empty for more than 4 days then they're technically not speedyable. Although their deletion is a bit of a no-brainer. SeventyThree(Talk) 00:00, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
I don't know how long they have been empty, although I suspect it's probably been long enough. Do you know a way to find out? -- ProveIt (talk) 01:04, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
I've never found a way. Categories don't have a normal history of the contents, because they're generated automagicly. If you know the subject you can check the history of some pages which should have been entries. I don;t think there is a way, sorry. SeventyThree(Talk) 16:09, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Modifications to the Userbox Sample template

Thanks for your work on the userbox sample template. You did a great job with what really had me stumped. I think it's ready for prime time - I have posted {{Userbox Sample}} and {{Userbox Sample2}} based on this test template. BigDT 02:37, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Fenêtre Records albums

The one remaining article in this category (mentioned in this CfD) has been deleted. Please consider a delete vote for the now-empty category. Thanks! -Big Smooth 20:32, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for updating me - I've changed my vote. Can you remember the name of the article which used to populate the category? It'd be nice to know so I can check the deletion. Sometimes people remove category tags from articles or misunderstand the CfD process, so it's nice to be able to check. I should have made note earlier, really! Keep up the good work. SeventyThree(Talk) 00:39, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
As far as I know, the only article in there was The Skywriter. -Big Smooth 15:42, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
OK, thanks. SeventyThree(Talk) 04:57, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Dye_laser.JPG

Thanks for uploading Image:Dye_laser.JPG. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Liu_agen.JPG

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For more information on using images, see the following pages:

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[edit] Bot help

I would like to write a bot that would search for my name (real and user name) being used in an article or talk page because I recently had an incident where a point of view was being discussed about a contribution I had made in regard to its premeditated deletion. Can you help? Thanks. ...IMHO (Talk) 19:41, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

There are several ways to do that, but I don't think you need a bot for it. If you want a list of pages you've edited, click "my contributions" at the top right of a page, or visit Special:Contributions/User:Pce3@ij.net - you can narrow down the namespace using the drop-down menu, if that helps. There are other ways as well - if you signed on the page, you could check "What links here" on your userpage (here) or talk page (here).
If you want to look for your real name, you could try Googling wikipedia (like this). You could also google your username, to catch places where it's used without being wikilinked. Bear in mind that google is a few days behind wikipedia, so if you're looking for something recent it may not find it. You could try the internal wikipedia search engine as well, but that's not always best (it's case-sensitive, among other things), and not always working.
Hope that helps - if not, give me another shout. SeventyThree(Talk) 23:30, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Yeah Google is great for finding older stuff. I was able in fact to find two images that needed to be deleated I probably could not have found as easily any other way. My main reason though for making the request was to be able to come up to speed a lot sooner than it would normally take me to figure out how to write a bot on my own. To be honest even though I am sure that I will eventually come up with a great bot application the truth is that I do not really have one now. Since so much of the things that I have wanted to do over the years since I started programming in the mid sixties that I will have to take my mind back to that point in time to see if there is anything I did not or could not accomplish back then but can accomplish now. If you prefer just to refer me to some directed reading than that would be great too. Thanks. ...IMHO (Talk) 00:58, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
I'd love to help, but there's not much I can tell you on the bot front. The only wikipedia 'bot' I use is AWB, which is more of a software tool and involves no programming beyond regexps. I haven't written any code which interfaces with wikipedia myself, so I can't help there - probably best if you point yourself at Wikipedia:Bots for inspiration and more experienced users. That said, I know a little of many languages and I'm always willing to learn. If you think I can help despite my inexperience, I'm willing.
I hear that the pywiki framework is a good place to start, but it all depends on what languages you know and what you want to do. If you want some ideas, try Wikipedia:Bot requests or maybe browse Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approvals for applications which got accepted. SeventyThree(Talk) 01:20, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Okay after a few hours sleep its coming back to me now... one of the uses I have for a bot is to help me build a list of the relevant characteristics of a particular topic or object. The for instance might be the various parts of speech used to define or name or describe an ant. For instance fire would be one and carpenter would be another, etc. The bot would simply produce a location code or link as a reference and maybe even add the descriptor to a spreadsheet list such that I would end up having a pretty complete list over time of all the descriptors used to describe or name an ant. ...IMHO (Talk) 12:36, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
For that sort of thing (non-interactive analysis), the best thing to do is probably to get a database dump - here is a good place to start. You probably want the current version of all articles (about 1Gb compressed download). Using a dump will ease the load on the servers considerably, and you can do alsorts with it. Alternatively, I've seen a web interface for running an SQL query on the live database - but my link ([1]) doesn't seem to have it anymore. SeventyThree(Talk) 14:19, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Looks like the best plan in that case would be to download a list of articles and then do a special export download on each one followed by an offline analysis one at a time. I could easily write a program for my own system to do this in background mode. Do you know off hand where a table of contents or an index of each article is? Also do you know if there is a page or file that lists the articles which have changed during a specified period (the last day or hour) so the problem of keeping my analysis current will be under control? Found it! Thanks. ...IMHO (Talk) 19:40, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm guessing you found Special:Allpages and Special:Recentchanges then. You might be able to use Special:Recentchangeslinked/Whatever as well. SeventyThree(Talk) 23:36, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Yes. These should do fine. Together with special export I should be able to write something using the MS Webbrowser control and a simple loop to get both the article name and access the article data to find each keyword modifier and go on to the next. I should also be able to write something to do the same using the list of most recent files. Should be a really interesting project. Thanks. ...IMHO (Talk) 18:38, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Glad I could help. SeventyThree(Talk) 18:53, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Pce3: I apologize if I offended you with my comment on Talk:Sorting algorithm regarding Rapid sort. I was not attempting to initiate a conspiracy to delete your article, just to invite interested parties to participate in the deletion discussion, both supporters and opposers. I'm sorry that I didn't mention it to you, I really wasn't trying to hide it. To directly answer your question, if you wait long enough you can get a pretty complete picture by either searching the site with Google or downloading a database dump and doing a fulltext search on the articles. Deco 00:27, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Well actually my primary interest in a bot is basically to learn how to do one. The idea to scout for my name or user ID being used was something that just popped into my head I guess because I realised that I only spotted your discussion with Snow by accident. Its no big deal except that it just seems like your reaction to the Rapid sort article was to get rid of it in all possible haste as if it repesented some kind of threat (Please see: Systemic bias). So I guess I was just thinking that instead of constantly monitoring my contributions or watch list and again mainly to learn how to do a bot I'd ask SeventyThree for help. Its not a biggy. I'm sure that once you have a chance to look at the Check sort in particular that you will see why I have concerns about dropping my efforts in regard to eventual publication of the Rapid sort. The fact that it does have a precursor though which I use every day for the original purpose it was created should tell you something. So don't be too worried about the whole thing I'm just trying to do justice to the Rapid sort in terms of sticking up for my part and it's. ...IMHO (Talk) 00:58, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Images license/source

Hello, you have several images marked for speedy deletion that do not have license and/or source. Please provide the sources and/or source information soon if you do not want them deleted.Thanks.--Dakota ~ 23:22, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Those would probably be the ones in my sandbox - part of a cleanup I was helping with, so I'm not surprised. I didn't initially upload any, although I reuploaded some to remove whitespace. Either way, I've blanked the page. I wouldn't want to stop any orfud deletions etc. SeventyThree(Talk) 18:57, 4 June 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Thanks

Regarding the Image on 7th Edition, please feel free to delete it. A better image has replaced it on the article.

The Ronin 01:45, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm not an admin, so I can't delete the image myself. I take it the better image is Image:Exp sym SeventhEdition C.gif? Depending, there are several ways to get rid of the image - but at this stage, it's probably easiest to just wait for the seven days to elapse. SeventyThree(Talk) 02:03, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Ok, thanks. Sorry if I've wasted any time. True, the aforementioned image is the better one.The Ronin 21:10, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Signiature

Yeah, list it for deletion... I was trying something, which didn't work, so my signiature was reverted back to what it is now :-) OwenS | T | C | 21:01, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Gone :) SeventyThree(Talk) 01:26, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Television series by company

They have been relisted...let's start anew, shall we?
—Lady Aleena talk/contribs 18:42, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:Zat_logo_wiki.gif)

Oh, heavens to Mergatroid, I sure hope I'm doing this right. =)

SeventyThree, thanks much for your reply and advice. I'm-a gonna let the image go bye-bye for now until I get more content to properly showcase it, and re-up it then.

Here we go with that four tilde thing . . . it worked in the preview . . . hope I don't mess it up!

Hoo-cha! → Buddypedia 15:46, 31 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] wikEd

The wikEdlogo

Hi, I have seen that you are using the Cacycle editor extension. This program is no longer actively maintained in favor of its much more powerful successor wikEd.

wikEd has all the functionality of the old editor plus: • syntax highlighting • nifty image buttons • more fixing buttons • paste formatted text from Word or web pages • convert the formatted text into wikicode • adjust the font size • and much, much more.

Switching to wikEd is easy, check the detailed installation description on its project homepage. Often it is as simple as changing every occurrence of editor.js into wikEd.js on your User:YourUsername/monobook.js page.

Cacycle 21:57, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question re: An Góilín

It looks like you supplied the photo for the An Góilín article. If so, do you know in which club that picture was taken? It looks familar. Thanks. -- House of Scandal 17:59, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

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