User talk:Shultz IV/Archive 2

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[edit] Reqphoto

Your {{reqphoto}} at red tape was likely removed for a few reasons:

  1. The template specifically says "put this on the talk page only". It makes articles look particularly unsightly.
  2. Previously, somewhat problematic users have made the majority of their contributions in the form of improperly placing {{reqphoto}} and {{expand}} without themselves ever adding photos or new content (a little quid pro quo courtesy is generally expected). Consequently, some users remove such edits unless they're accompanied by explanations, new content, or the like.
  3. (and this is why I've removed this specific instance) There's no apparent rationale for a photograph of a metaphor. If you've got a good idea of what this entails, then please add it to Talk:Red tape along with an explanation of an appropriate photo.

— Lomn Talk 15:40, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Cellphone-stub

Template:Cellphone-stub 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. In a nutshell, I nominated because I only found this overlapping the existing (and better designed) wireless-stub. If there's a reason that cellphone-stub should operate orthogonally with wireless-stub, I have no problems with seeing it redesigned in that direction and kept. — Lomn Talk 15:51, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] KU

No, I don't know anyone here from Chapman, but we do have a few classes in Korean language. I don't know anything about how often they're offered or how deep you can go with it. (ESkog)(Talk) 23:15, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

  • For a 1-bedroom? This site might be a good start - I think 4-600 maybe, depending on quality, location, etc. (ESkog)(Talk) 23:33, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Feed the Children

There are likely hundreds of thousands of subjects that aren't yet covered on Wikipedia. Complaining that an article doesn't yet exist likely won't get you anywhere. However, requesting an article politely (rather than complaining) may encourage someone to begin an article. (^_^) --日本穣 21:58, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Good luck

Good luck in your new identity. I think you can be a great contributor. Danny 04:29, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Simple English Wikipedia is not just for children

Freshstart is right (see his comment). Even though children are welcome to visit Simple English Wikipedia, and are currently considered part of the target audience, they are not our only audience, and therefore changing the design to be more child-focused would be inappropriate. But as regards Arabic Wikipedia, I see what Shultz IV is saying. He is saying that the background picture on that Wikipedia is not the same as the one here, with a sort of arabesque-style pattern visible. I'll post this on his talk page at English Wikipedia, too. --Cromwellt|Talk 21:50, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Columns

To do columns you might want to try a simple table. You can find some general information about tables at WP:TABLE, which contains links to tools that can convert HTML tables to wiki markup (if you know how to write tables in HTML). Help:Table on the meta-wiki contains detailed information about creating tables using wiki markup.

There may be another way to do columns, but if there is I'm not aware of it.

Hbackman 22:02, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] latinitas

"Latinitas huius permaxime corrigenda est. Corrige vel rescribe si possis." The latin of this article seriously needs fixing. Correct or rewrite, if you are able.

"Hoc articulus melius digerendus est. Quaesemus ut opem des in categorias rectas includendo." This article needs to be better categorized. We ask that you help us by including the proper categories.

maxcorrigenda is shorthand for the former, and also the name of the template we use at la. dubcat, likewise, is shorthand for the latter.

No, there is no good English-Latin machine translator. Either learn the language, or ask someone to do it.

Regarding your formatting: en's templates don't work at la, unless we have copied them. If we have, they will be under latin names... thus Formula:Expand Formula:Reqphoto Formula:Attention Formula:Wikify, etc, do not work.

la:Usor:Ioshus Rocchio is a better place to reach me.--Josh Rocchio 03:58, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Acronym list

Hi there. I've reverted your search-and-replace on list of Internet slang, I'm afraid. Please see WP:NOT, in particular "Wikipedia is not censored". The unbowlderised versions are what the vast majority of people mean when they use such acronyms. Sorry if you don't personally like them, but that's the way it is. --Bth 11:12, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DontDateHimGirl

I've restored the proposed deletion tag at the above article. WP:WEB has a couple of relevant notes, I feel.

  1. Trivial coverage, such as... a brief summary of the nature of the content does not meet the notability criteria. I feel a sub-3:00 item falls under this, particularly when the alternate example given is that of a television documentar[y].
  2. The guideline that [t]he article itself must provide proof that its subject meets one of these criteria via inlined links or a "Reference" or "External link" section.

These points should be addressed clearly before removing the {{prod}} tag. — Lomn Talk 21:22, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Upon review, I've concluded that the "trivial coverage" bit cited above is intended for far more limited scopes than the CNN piece (or most of the similar ones at other news outlets), so I've noted "keep" at the AFD which was opened. As for improvements... I remain unconvinced that this is anything more than the Net fad-o-the-month, but WP's inclusion standards are pretty broad where such is concerned. I'd link to some of the text stories regarding the site (I noticed Chicago Tribune, New York Times, and MSNBC in the Google listing) and also note on the creator's admitted bias against dealing with cheating women on the site. — Lomn Talk 21:59, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Water Bottle

While your addition of water bottle on my user page was reverted by someone else, thanks for the short laughs. I've had other people put Gatorade instead of water bottle among other stuffs, I should have seen this one coming. I probably won't be leaving it there since I'd like to keep my page simple, but thanks anyways. I'm guessing you found me through my contributions in Korea Space Center article. -- WB 22:19, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

It's ok if I post a water bottle on your talk page then, is it? --Shultz IV 22:29, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
I'm thinking of adding a column with a water bottle along with the semi-wiki-break notice up top. Go ahead. -- WB 23:02, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Col break thingie

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[edit] Hmmm

It should have ignored that redirect, I'll take a look at the code, it appears to be screwed up -- Tawker 18:33, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lolicon

I understand that you are opposed to the use of this image, but you have to understand that at times Wikipedia works pretty slowly, just like any large community. It isn't really useful to spread your concern about several different places all at once; start a discussion somewhere (in this case I'd suggest the article's talk page) and pay attention to what other people do. At all times, remember the following:

  • Be patient. As I said, we do tend to move slowly, and any discussion of policy moves doubly slowly.
  • Be ready to step away if your point of view is not ultimately the one which is accepted. No matter how strongly you feel, it is possible that consensus will be against you. This can be extremely frustrating, and the best thing for it is to step over to find somewhere else you can contribute for a while. (ESkog)(Talk) 02:44, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Terabyte and verifiability

I've removed your "shot-in-the-dark" estimate of "50 TB of Wikipedia data" from the article because it flunks WP:VERIFY. While you did add the {{fact}} template, that's really one to be used when you encounter someone else's spurious or doubtworthy fact. If you need to apply it to your own fact, particularly if you're inventing your own fact, you likely shouldn't make the edit in the first place. Incidentally, WP:STAT links to a page listing the sum total of Wikipedia language databases at around 7 GB in size. — Lomn Talk 20:57, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Putting a box around it"

Try <pre></pre> or <blockquote></blockquote>. 68.39.174.238 06:28, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the "blockquote" but "pre" only widens the page. How do I make a nice-looking box that surrounds a paragraph and doesn't widen a page? --Shultz IV 06:36, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Selective archiving?

Is there any particular reason you're moving "certain topics" to here? Alai 15:48, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Two admins, one of whom was Marudubshinki told me that although I can't just flat out delete other users' comments, if I don't like some particular topics on my talk page (i.e. scoldings, diatribes, etc...), I move them to that subpage. They say it's ok to move any topic to any subpage just so long as the subpages are visible from here. --Shultz IV 15:52, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
My comment in there was a scolding or diatribe? It's a little misleading to put these in a self-described "Nondescript Subpage", separate from the apparent archives, isn't it? Alai 15:55, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
I also said "etc..."; I didn't like the fact that neither you nor anyone was going to remove your remark on that AFD so that's why I relocated our topic there. Sorry about that. I didn't think that remark will bode well for my future as an author. --Shultz IV 16:06, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Just tossing out some food for thought here, but do you see Alai's point about the page title? While you're adhering to the letter of Maru's instructions, disguising the visible link and passively pursuing aid to make it invisible are both outside the spirit of WP's openness. This is the same issue as inserting additional editorial comments into your edit summaries or HTML comments. A publishing company will almost assuredly not care about your WP history. The WP community is significantly more likely to care if you continue to attempt to hide it. — Lomn Talk 17:57, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Passwords?

In reply to your question as to how you can make certain pages password-protected so that only certain individuals can access them...

you can't. That's not something the software is made for. Sorry. DS 18:11, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Images of Samjiyon

Can't help you much; searching Google images for 삼지연 and 삼지연군 turns up a number of nice pictures, but none of them seem remotely likely to be GFDL-compatible. Of course, Samjiyon's municipal borders extend to North Korean side of Baekdusan, including Cheonji -- since tourism seems to be a fairly important aspect of Samjiyon, an image of the mountain or the lake might do a lot for the article. -- Visviva 06:51, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Images tagged for deletion

You did not give any rationale for the deletion of Image:BlindFaithBlindFaith.jpg or Image:Virgin Killer.jpg. These appear to be album covers used in articles on the albums, which is fair use. What is the problem? Just zis Guy you know? 09:26, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Aren't images of nude girls under 13 against the law in the US? I don't know what pertinent laws they have in their jurisdictions if they're from another country but if those albums are from the US, I don't know how they possibly slipped through the cracks. --Shultz IV 09:34, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] school massacre

Thought you might be interested, since you added {{fact}} for this one: the incident occured at a residential school's dormitory, explaining how it could occur at a school around midnight. Good catch on what was, on the surface, a very peculiar claim. Here's one source for the incident: [1] — Lomn Talk 15:17, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

One related caution, though -- when clarifying a statement, make sure that it's clarified correctly. For the Roseburg, Oregon shooting, the gunman never shot himself. The reference to the "boy shot" was the victim (I've changed that wording to be less vague). Both of these references were found, by the way, via a Google search for "[location here] school shooting". — Lomn Talk 15:22, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] California-Nevada Interstate Maglev

How does the article look now? For the record, the closing admin should look at the current article and the one that was there for the delete votes. Th reasons used for many of the early votes are, in my opinion, no longer valid. My guess is that in doing this, the result will be keep or at worst no consensus which results in keping the article. Vegaswikian 23:08, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

I guess you're right. It shouldn't be valid any longer because the article has been improved. I wish that IP user didn't ruin so many of the things I made this way. You can maybe ask ESkog to close it with a no consensus, or vote to keep it somehow. Usually, the closing admins are different than the opening ones. ESkog can be the closing admin; he works closely with me. --Shultz IV 23:16, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Because of our mentoring relationship, I don't feel that I'm a neutral enough party to close the AFD. I do agree with Vegas that the closing admin should take into consideration the changes over time, and most regular AFD closers do. (ESkog)(Talk) 23:22, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
It's also worth noting, Shultz, that the closing admin will be more likely to consider this stuff if your reactions aren't so incendiary. Rather than tossing out accusations of sockpuppetry or anon-ip stalking, or trying to vote-lawyer, improve the article (or just let it stand if you think it's a baseless AFD) and then note "look, major overhaul at [whatever date]. Article improved" and most admins will take that into consideration. AFD is not a vote, it's a discussion in favor of consensus. — Lomn Talk 00:47, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Onna Bugei-sha

Here is your source for onna bugei-sha if you're worried its just a made up term!

Female Samurai Information

[edit] E-mail and IRC

Yes, I got the e-mail and finally replied a few minutes ago.

I am having the same problem getting into IRC, which tells me it's a problem with the Freenode network. (ESkog)(Talk) 20:20, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed addition to blocking policy

I've moved it to the talk page, Wikipedia talk:Blocking policy for discussion. FreplySpang (talk) 21:40, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tagging articles

I noticed that Classmates.com has 4 different tags on it asking for a variety of attention. I have pared this down to 1; in general you should not overtag articles as it is not aesthetically pleasing and doesn't really accomplish a whole lot. Also, the {{expand}} tag is redundant to stubs - people looking for articles to expand will already look at both of them. Let me know if you have any questions. (ESkog)(Talk) 21:04, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

My screen resolution is pretty high (1440x900) but I operate several windows at once; nothing's ever maximized on my desktop. At any rate, 4 cleanup-related tags is too many. (ESkog)(Talk) 22:44, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Message on your page

I changed the wording originally because I didn't want people to feel like I was "protecting" you or anything like that - if you do something wrong, get warned, and then continue doing it, no one should have to track me down before they block you. I'll experiment with some wording choices that seem a little less severe. (ESkog)(Talk) 22:44, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

I feel more comfortable with the most recent change you made there. Thanks. --Shultz IV 11:00, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Classmates.com thanks

Thanks for your note. Ironically our paths crossed... I personally added Classmates.com many moons ago but it was somehow deleted. This weekend I personally wrote another Classmates.com page and as I was ready to post it discovered that somebody (you) made the kind effort to recently create the page. It was random chance, or perhaps synergy. I discovered it because I was visiting Wikipedia to share information that will hopefully be helpful to others. So I added to the page you started.

Are you a member of Classmates.com, either Basic (free) or Gold (paid)? You can email your answer to me at juppendahl@classmates.com.

Best regards, JohnUpp 21:40, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Exameter Road...

...sounds for all the world like Lineland in Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland! 68.39.174.238 03:34, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

This will be completely different, and in all four dimensions. My novel/concept is in its earliest stages. Expect a published book sometime in the 2020s? --Shultz IV 03:50, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

True, but the same, the idea sounds similar (A line (True or seeming) extending for further then the mind can imagine ;D! 68.39.174.238 06:29, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Newsletter

I think he's just making an off-the-wall comment to say he agrees with your reasoning. (ESkog)(Talk) 00:57, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summaries

Please abide by WP:CIV and avoid using ALL CAPS in edit summaries. cheers, NSLE (T+C) at 09:06 UTC (2006-04-18)

[edit] Bionic tower and WP:V

This is going to sound broken-recordish, but please exercise caution when changing factual details. The existing references in Bionic tower list a cost of approximately $15 billion, regardless of whether you consider such a number reasonable. — Lomn Talk 14:40, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for expansion

In regard to you recent edit [2]: There is no such rule that I know of for placing images in such context, however the image that you displayed is a fair use image. Which under its license should not be displayed anywhere else but on its own article. That is why I have reverted it. Thanks -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 23:57, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

How often do users act on requests to expand articles? How well-visited is the RfE page? I hope listing CARQUEST there was a worthwhile thing to do. --Shultz IV 10:58, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Poddubny

A good one, indeed! I will do it, unless someone else comes earlier. `'mikka (t) 19:47, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Wikipedia:Profanity

Not all of our policies are handed down from Jimbo; in fact, most of them aren't. They are instead decided upon by consensus among interested editors. Because of this it doesn't really make sense to use a {{fact}} template and ask "Who says?" - instead, if you feel the policy should be changed, you should initiate a discussion on the talk page. However, I think you'll find there is a strongly established consensus against any sort of censorship or bowdlerizing in Wikipedia - it may be better to spend your energies elsewhere, but that is of course your call. (ESkog)(Talk) 14:58, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reformation

I'm not sure, as I don't know all the users in Esperanza by heart; however, I'll go check right now. And just a side note; I really, really admire you for turning away from the "dark side" of the force. A very rare thing here. I'll be back when I check everything out. Cheers! _-M o P-_ 16:05, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh, and regarding your posts involving the article "Dechronifying" on Eskog's talk page, I just had a few tips for you; first, it wasn't a personal attack, but it was a bit too close to it for comfort. Try to avoid insulting people, as that'll lead to my next point, which is; the fact that for every negative thing you do, it generally takes 10 positive things for people to gain a positive perception of you. Just some advice to make the road easier a bit in the future. _-M o P-_ 16:19, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Esperanza membership

Please contact oneof the AC members or me and we can discuss it. Regards, --Celestianpower háblame 21:26, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thank you for supporting my (successful) RfA!--Rockero 00:13, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Hopefully" interwiki links

Please don't add interwiki links to articles until you are sure they exist. Even if you can't read the other language, you can tell by clicking through to that other site. If the top left tab (the one that here says "Article" or "User page" or whatever) is red text, that means the page doesn't exist yet, and there should be no interwiki link. (ESkog)(Talk) 03:07, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Esperanza

I think the mission of Esperanza is a good one, but I think I can give more to Wikipedia in other places. It's just not really my thing. (ESkog)(Talk) 21:47, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unlocked bikes

Yes, as you can see the bikes are unloked. As you know Mexico City is huge so in some areas the criminality is lower than others althow it is still daengerous in all the city. I haven't notice so much about the locked or unlocked bikes but i supposed is a cultural question. May be the owners of those bikes let them just a few minutes and the place is a "safe" area because is a plaza or small mall with banks and security. Anyway I hope i helped to anwer your question Juan Scott 04:04, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Just another RFA thank you note

Dear Shultz IV, I appreciate your vote and your kind words in my RFA. It has passed with an unexpected 114/2/2 and I feel honored by this show of confidence in me. Cheers! ←Humus sapiens ну? 02:50, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Thank you for voting for me at my RFA. I am thankful for your kind words and confidence in me. Even though it failed, constructive criticism was received. In the next few months, I intend to work on expanding my involvement in other namespaces and try a few different subjects than in the past. - CTSWynekenTalk

[edit] Thanks for voting on my RfA

Thanks so much for voting!
Thanks so much for voting on my request for adminship. I have decided to withdraw my nomination as it seems that consensus will not be reached. If you voted in support, thanks for putting your trust in me to be a good admin. If you voted in opposition, thank you as well for your criticism as it will only help me be a better Wikipedian and perhaps help if/when I apply for adminship again sometime in the future.

--Mets501talk • contribs 01:32, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia dreams

Don't worry, they are commonplace if you spend most of your day here, as I do. :P I think there was a dream I had of nominating all the vandals for adminship on the reason of them being good at what they do. I don't know where it came from, but... _-M o P-_ 05:34, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No worries

I do get a little busy sometimes, which is why I don't always act on your requests. There is a bit of a drought of active, qualified editors in the Korea-related topics these days, so I' m not sure who else to point you to. (I'm not especially qualified, but at least I'm active.) Naryathegreat has done yeoman work on some North Korea-related articles, but I haven't seen that name on my watchlist much lately, so that editor may be in Wikiretirement.

By the way, the quality of your contributions has improved considerably recently. Good work! -- Visviva 10:51, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Statue of Brothers

You put something about the Korea portal in the statue of brothers talk page. Is there something I can do to help ? Danleo 14:04, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 부탁

If you must put {{korean}} on Korea-related articles' talk pages, would you mind to provide an edit summary whenever you do that?

Not giving an edit summary makes everybody think you have something to say about the related article when they see your edit in their watchlist.

Putting the template on a hitherto empty talk page makes the link on the article page change from red to blue, which fools users into thinking there is or has been a discussion related to the article, when in fact there is none. Making readers follow the link just to find a lonely {{korean}} template may be a waste of their time in many cases.

I suggest you only put it on talk pages that are already linked to in blue.

Thank you and have a nice day! Wikipeditor 14:33, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

I would put on the edit summary "{{korean}}" or say "adding korean template" but I can only copy & paste one string of text at a time and to type in identical edit summaries would cost a lot of time; it was more time-saving to just skip that step altogether. If there's a utility that could do that for me and save a lot more time this way, please tell me about it. --Shultz IV 15:09, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, I don't know of any. It may not help much, but if you use Firefox, you can drop off a line of text in its search field (and another one in its URI field) while you copy-and-paste something else, and pick it up again later. The shortcuts are Ctrl+K for the search field and Ctrl+L for the URI field. Wikipeditor 15:15, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Templates don't render in the edit summary. That means you can just copy the string {{korean}} and paste it twice, once into the big box and once into the summary field... that's what I usually do. No need for actual typing. :-)-- Visviva 11:50, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My username

I'm not Korean, but I do live in South Korea and have been there for about 4 years. The username has no particular relation to my ancestry (which is mixed Euro-American), but has more to do with my youthful immersion in German Idealist philosophy, in which the concept of the vis viva plays an important role. In particular, for me the name somes up certain aspects of the philosophy of Hegel, although I don't suppose Hegel would agree with my saying so. Cheers! -- Visviva 11:50, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Square lights

I removed your question, because it was a bit misplaced. You might try asking for assistance at the Village Pump. Joyous | Talk 05:28, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

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