User talk:Zaphod Beeblebrox

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[edit] Skadi, Thrym and Suttung

Thought a bit of a clear-down was necessary on this page...

Have mailed a couple of members of the WGPSN to see if I can get come clarification on this matter. Never worked so hard to confirm such a fact in my entire life lol -- Zaphod Beeblebrox 07:07, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)

One of my emails has received a reply ; Brother Guy Consolmagno (a member of the WGPSN), fowarded a section from an email he received from Kaare Aksnes on this matter -
"The correct spellings are XXIII Suttungr, XXVII Skathi and XXX Thrymr. The anglicized forms Suttung, Skadi and Thrym were originally accepted by the IAU Working Group on Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) and announced on IAUC 8177. But the names were later changed in accordance with the original norse spellings, see http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov"
I hope that this settles the matter - the IAU appear to have adopted the official Norse spellings for these bodies -- Zaphod Beeblebrox 08:56, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Great job. Let's go ahead and change them. -- Curps 09:01, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] The Children's Hour

I moved the article The Children's Hour to The Children's Hour (radio). There is an unrelated stage play and subsequent movie called The Children's Hour which I believe is more well-known; it has a greater number of Google hits, for example, and there are many more links to "The Children's Hour" on Wikipedia concerning the play or movie than the radio show, so I feel the move was justified. Just letting you know. -Branddobbe 21:24, Jul 4, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up - never heard of the stage play myself ; I was just going through the Radio 4 comedy page and saw that there was a link I could fill in for them. Nice work, fellow wikipedian -- Zaphod Beeblebrox 21:42, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

There is also a science fiction novel with exactly the same title by Jerry Pournelle and S.M. Stirling. AlainV 03:17, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Blink comparator

I made some changes that turned out to be kind of extensive, and added a couple of paragraphs. Let me know what you think. -- Curps 06:50, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi there ; the changes look good - I think it would be nice if we we could a picture of this piece of equipment and images of a couple of photographic plates to illustrate the technique as well. Know of any that are likely to be free of copyright? -- Zaphod Beeblebrox 06:53, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] blood

Hey Zaphod, thanks for the blood fixes. Is there a problem using cats rather than cats? Erich 12:57, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] flags in heats

Hi Zaphod, I don't think that we ought to put flags against all the competitors in the athletics events as we have not done with all of the other events and I think it a bit excessive. The medallists flags appear in the medal winners box anyway. We could go back and add them all in but it will use rather a lot of space? What do you think??Scraggy4 09:30, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I agree with you that they do look better with the flags but I can see someone else removing them. You might want to look at amending your program to add a space and . on the measurements of seconds and metres as per the Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Style for numbers, weights, and measures, (as this seems to really bug some people), also that the names and countries should only be linked once from each page. I shall leave it upto you and others to input the athletics results then as this will give me more time to add the write ups.Scraggy4 10:27, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Work in progress

Hi Zaphod, User:Zaphod Beeblebrox/Work In Progress showed up in the Category:2004 Summer Olympics events page. I assume that this was by accident, and I've fixed it. I hope that's OK. Eugene van der Pijll 08:37, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hi Zaphod, On the WC2006 Euro Qualification page it looks like there's a bug in generating the group tables -- it's showing Wales as played 2 lost 2, 2 points - when of course they've actually drawn 2. I notice Georgia's table in Group 2 is showing them as lost 1 drawn 0 when the results show the other way round, so I presume it's a systemic fault! On the matter of how much detail to show, I think what you've got looks good (though you might want to explain what the HT scores are for those who don't follow the beautiful game...) - I certainly wouldn't include team lists; goal-scorers and times, perhaps, though it would produce a very big page! -- Arwel 12:15, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Neptune (planet)

Hi, I just wanted to explain why I reverted your last edit to Neptune (planet) again - having the text floating left doesn't work in Mozilla at least, as it causes the text (except for the "External links" section, which is not inside the div) to float *under* the table. What's the problem with "normal" layout (regular flowing text and a floating table), anyway? I'd like to help find a solution that looks good in all browsers, but I don't quite understand the problem yet. -- Schnee 16:01, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] World Cup qualification pages

Hi Zaphod. I've been playing locally with the layout of the data on these pages (and moving to wikitable syntax). Take a look at my scratch page and let me know what you think. -- Avaragado 21:21, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

On Football World Cup 2006 - North, Central American and Caribbean Qualification Groups and Football_World_Cup_2006#North.2C_Central_American_and_Caribbean_Zone , I don't care whether the details of each qualifying match are on one page or another - just that they need not be on both. --Henrygb 17:10, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Billy Wright

Hi there. I'm a bit surprised that you're insisting on having references to red and yellow cards in the Billy Wright article -- they are anachronistic since he retired in 1959 and the cards weren't introduced until 1970! Some of us are old enough to remember a time when refs didn't use cards :) -- Arwel 13:40, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] The Humungous Image Tagging Project

Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

[edit] Ken Stimpson Community School

I apologize for the recent vandalising of this page.Ken Stimpson Community School It appears to have come from students of this school based on the content of the vandalising. I will keep an eye on this page and reverse any stupid changes made and attempt to locate (within the school) who caused the issue in the school. Wikipedia.org is temp blocked to students on the school network. However unfortually the damages appear to be occuring after school hours from a private home machine, I'm not sure if its possible to prevent a specfic IP address from editting certain pages. I'd prefer that this page wasn't put up for deletion, rather it was banned from being editted if the problem gets any worse(Was my first article on wikipedia.org, and it fits in with the "Education in the UK" topics). However if it happens again and again then there may be no other course of action. --Cheesegoduk 02:12, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] Honorifics and titles

I have posted a proposal on honorifics in my user space that I would like you to read: User:Ford/proposals. I am not sure, based on your comments at Talk:December 2004 in Britain and Ireland, exactly what your feeling is about neutrality in this instance, but I am hopeful that you might support the proposal. Thanks.
— Ford 22:53, 2005 Jan 15 (UTC)

[edit] Page Redesign

I, Mollsmolyneux, have redesigned the List of incomplete Doctor Who serials page. To view it please Click Here. Please leave any comments you have about the page on My Talk Page and tell me if you think I should put the page on. -- Mollsmolyneux 12:51, 12 Nov 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: 2006 WC qualification pages

You left a note at my talk page about how the current pages (2006 FIFA World Cup (qualification UEFA) are over-linked and ugly. It seems to me that you are trying to convince me to agree with you. And I have -- for over two months! I have responded at the talk page anyways, though. I'm probably going to look back and possibly revert it to the old format. I don't know why you contacted me about this whole mess -- I had said in an earlier message that if you had any beefs with the changed format, you could take it up with User talk:BLOGuil. I don't know what else to say. If you have any questions, please see my talk page. Ian Manka Talk to me! 03:30, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Zaphod Beeblebrox! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Xyrael T 19:03, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for using it to revert vandalism on my user page. Secretlondon 20:41, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Radio articles

We now have a new proposed project at Wikipedia:WikiProject/List of proposed projects#Radio which, if started, would try to cover the general field of radio a bit better than is currently being done. Any and all input would be more than welcome. I'm the only listed member so far, but I do believe two (or, knowing you, three) heads are better than one. Badbilltucker 15:52, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

The project is now officially active. Badbilltucker 16:29, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
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