User talk:Barticus88

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[edit] Welcome

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[edit] Feral in Mexico & US

I cannot find information about feral peafowl in Mexico in the 19th century and their dispersion throughout Mexico and prolifereation from there to much of the USA, from California to Florida, in the 20th century. Please, do you know anything about it? I need exact references. --Michael Romanov 06:17, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Signature

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Like it? •S e an•gorter•^{(T) (P)} 11:17, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to WikiProject Northern Ireland

Thank you for your help. In my haste in setting up the Troubles project page on Saturday, I missed the disambiguation. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 10:44, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation to WikiProject_Telecommunications

You have made many good contributions in the area of telecommunications. Why not join the WikiProject Telecommunications? Mange01 00:28, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hold on with the "military junta" dabs!

I noticed that you'd changed junta to "military junta" on the Sandinista National Liberation Front page, and I see you're changing it on a lot of pages. First, "military junta" just redirects to "military dictatorship." Second, I don't think you should be killing wikilinks to "junta" just because it's a disambig page, as it does contain information about juntas in general, that some might find useful. Third, in the FSLN case, it was not a military junta. Anyway, hold up with the junta-killing! --Groggy Dice T|C 09:19, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RFD

On 09 January, you tagged the Native Americans: America's Palestinians redirect for deletion, but you did not complete the nomination by listing it at WP:RFD. While I have fixed this one, please see the instructions at WP:RFD for future reference. You may also wish to comment on the deletion debate at that page. -- JLaTondre 20:04, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2007 January 27 — Randall Bart 09:29, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Goth links

Thank you so much for putting in the hard yards disambiguating so many links to "Goth". I've been trying to do a bunch each day to try to get it under control, but your efforts have far outshone mine. :-) --Stormie 03:16, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Perfect numbers

I saw your new Template:Divisor_classes and thought it looked pretty cool. Nice work!

CRGreathouse (t | c) 18:58, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanx. I was on one of those pages (mondo abundant, I think), and clicked one of the "see also" links, and there I noticed the see also list included other links, and before I knew it I had over a dozen see also lists to merge, so I decided to make a box. Then I spent a few hours making a box, including one catastrophic failure and a long lesson on Do Not Fight The Tool. But I ended up with pretty much what I wanted, a narrow right side box with white on green title.

I screwed up and put an underscore everywhere I used it, but that doesn't matter, so I didn't fix it. Don't tell anyone I invented the term "divisor classes". If some mathematician wants to correct me, they can tell me what the correct term is for that list of things I made, and I'll go fix it. As I decided how to order the list, I realized I needed prime and composite. I have three more to add: unit, void, and power. There are articles on 1, 0, and exponentiation, but not on those number theory concepts. Power I can do without, but you really can't have composite and prime without unit and void. Well there are integer fields without units (a+b√5, IIRC), but if you don't have units you don't have primes, only composites. — Randall Bart 04:04, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Malays dab page

Would you be willing to give a little feedback on the possibility of redirecting the Malays dab page to Malay per my comment at Talk:Malays? Dekimasu が... 12:54, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Glad to be of service. — Randall Bart 17:53, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Chinese, relating to a possible redirect of Chinese people to Chinese, is another case that could use a new outside opinion (in either direction), if you have the time. Dekimasuよ! 03:01, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lewis with Harris

Is there much point in having the category on this page as well as the page it redirects to, it looks strange when you look at the list under the category itself. Fraslet 20:51, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

I was just getting to that. First I add to Category:Amalgamated placenames, then I take away. I knew there would be duplicates (Waldeck-Pyrmont and Waldeck and Pyrmont eg).— Randall Bart 21:03, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Cunning. Good luck! Fraslet 21:05, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Well said about divisiveness!

Just came here to give you kudos. DanielZimmerman 02:38, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Huh?

What do you mean I deleted the template? It's still there. I would have no objection to userfying it per WP:GUS, of course. >Radiant< 09:12, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

If you didn't delete the template, who did this?— Randall Bart 13:25, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

That's not the template we were talking about. At any rate, as clearly stated in the deletion summary, this is a recreation, which falls under WP:CSD criterion G4. >Radiant< 13:41, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Palatinate

Hi, you seem to plan to move Palatinate to Palatinate (disambiguation). Just to let you know, there has been a survey in January, which resulted in the move in the opposite direction, see Talk:Electoral Palatinate. Markussep 20:21, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually I plan to leave Palatinate (disambiguation) pointing at Palatinate. The long link is used to tell disambiguators the link doesn't need to be fixed.

OK. Markussep 20:37, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Malformed TfD nominations

On February 26th, you made a couple TfD nominations here: Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2007_February_26#Template:User_atheist_a in which you simply named the template. In the future, please use {{lt|NameOfTemplate}} because it makes it easy to see if the template has been deleted and what still links to it. —dgies^t_c 16:42, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

I thought I had followed procedure. I'll try, but the xfD procedures are non-intuitive and differ from each other. The xfD procedures are all in need of revision. Maybe I should work on that project. — Randall Bart 16:50, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Wait, here I am giving you bad advice: the actual instructions are {{subst:tfd2|template name|text=Your reason(s) for nominating the template. --~~~~}}, which is very similar to {{lt}}. Still, a homogenization of XfD procedures might be good...—dgies^t_c 16:57, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Latin

Hey, how's it going? I'd just use Delenda delenda est. Of course, literally I guess this would be rendered "destruction (destroying) is being destroyed", but the sense of "Destruction must be destroyed" will be conveyed. I'm taking a little bit of a liberty by using delenda twice as a gerundive, but the "est" clarifies the use of the second gerundive. Hope this helps!
PS -- if you have other questions, feel free to drop a line. •Jim62sch• 11:23, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanx, but I want to avoid "taking a little bit of liberty". I'm sure Delenda delenda est will be good enough, but I'll put a little effort into finding if something is better. — Randall Bart 07:56, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TfD of Template:User_Kim_Possible

For future reference, if there is a page you want to delete which has only been edited by yourself, you can tag it for speedy deletion under WP:CSD#G7: "Author requests deletion. Any page for which deletion is requested by the original author in good faith, provided the page's only substantial content was added by its author." To do so, add {{db-author}} to the page. I have already tagged the page for you, referencing your request to delete. Obviously if it is a page in wide use speedy deletion would not be advisable. —dgies^t_c 20:50, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Okay, dewd. I'm just trying to get along. — Randall Bart 20:56, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

No problem, I'm just trying to save you future effort. —dgies^t_c 21:07, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reversion on Rouge Admin Page

Hey the ^{[citation needed]} tags were a joke. The page is a humorous one. You could have at least used the talk page before undoing somebody's work. Seriously. I won't bother reverting it back, but I hope you will reconsider and change it back yourself. It's HUMOR. Sue Rangell 01:05, 15 March 2007 (UTC)^{[citation needed]}

I think the red link user did a revert before he got the joke, then reverted himself once he grokked the page. I then did a third revert, which under the circumstances is not climbing the Reichstag, but could be construed as loitering in der Platz der Republik in unusual attire.

The joke didn't seem to fit. It's the wrong type of joke for that page. There's a clause and sentence level believability of the piece that was being violated. — Randall Bart 03:37, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chinese checkers

Saw you added "Swedish checkers" as an alternate name. Googling shows only 13 results, so I don't think this is an often used name, if at all, so I deleted it. A source would probably be needed for such an obscure version of the name.

Not that "Chinese" checkers is any more correct, of course, but it seems that nobody cares about that (ironically Chinese people seem to have appropriated the name and claimed the game for ourselves). Kelvinc 22:45, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

I have never read a description of Chinese checkers in a book which didn't say it was originally called Swedish checkers. I must have read it at least ten times (probably two books five times each). I have seen Swedish checkers sets. Of course this may be manufactured history. The claim that it's German not Swedish is news to me.

Web searching was not fruitful. I found a few people mentioning there is such a game, but no description to what it is. Certainly not a cite. My books may be out of storage soon, but I may not even have the book. Until I find something, there's nothing.— Randall Bart 23:13, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for being cool with it. I suppose adding it with {{fact}} appended might work: your call. Maybe I'll go to the library in the upcoming days and browse through the books on board games to see if I can help. Kelvinc 01:44, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

I looked at all the trans-wiki links, and didn't see anything that looked like "Svensk" on any of them. (No that I would recognize it in Chinese, but I looked anyway.) Now I am seriously wondering about the provenance of the name "Swedish Checkers". If I can find a Swedish Checkers set, I will be sure to upload a picture. — Randall Bart 21:51, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Posthumous

Hi, I noticed your post on WP:DPL about disambiguating posthumous. Have you run into many instances of that article being linked when someone is talking about an album released after a band's breakup and not necessarily after someone's death? I found that the other day and I'm not sure that's a proper use of the term. --Mus Musculus 19:49, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Not correct, but probably figurative. In quotes, it's okay. Hmmm. I mean that two different ways. In a quotation ("We released it posthumously"), or in scare quotes (on their "posthumous" Foo album). However, I would use scare quotes in Wikipedia text only if that word is used in a cite. In such a case the scare quotes indicate that Wikipedia doesn't really endorse that meaning.

As for linking it (if you keep it), I don't expect [[figuratively posthumous works]] will be written any time soon. You could link to [[posthumous works]], but I would delink. — Randall Bart 21:18, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Could you look at something for me?

I don't want to sway you in one direction or the other on this topic, but could I get you to look at this, then give me your honest opinion?

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Sue Rangell/B.R.I.T.T.A.N.I.C.A.

Sue Rangell^{[citation needed]} 18:24, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RFD for Veterans with Desputed Status

I have formatted the deletion discussion per WP:RFD#How to list a redirect for deletion and am informing you per your request. I have left the text of your comment unchanged, so you may want to update it here. Cheers, Black Falcon 20:30, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s):

Autoblock of 38.184.1.100 lifted or expired.

Request handled by: —Ryūlóng (竜龍) 03:17, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WhatLinksHere

Hi Randall, I just wanted to thank you for your work on the WhatLinksHere script. I find it really useful and, in fact, I've been toying around with it for a few hours now. If you don't mind, I'd also like to bother you with a Javascript-related question. (Disclaimer: I'm a Unix guy. So when I hear script, I think bash. I've written more than a few lines of C (and, reluctantly, C++) code in my day but I'm certainly no JS expert. In other words, there's a good chance I'm overlooking something really obvious. Oh well, the only thing I've got to loose is my special geek parking permit).

Basically, what I'm trying to do is display a working DPL div on the article page (ie. without clicking the 'what links here' link). The problem is, that I don't know how to load the 'wlh' page into memory (on-the-fly) without actually loading it in a visible tab or window. The only simple solution I can think of right now is to have a servlet/cgi script on one of my servers do the legwork (ie. parsing) but that seems a bit excessive and pretty inefficient. Is there any other way you can think of to do what I'm trying to do? Cheers. -- Seed 2.0 22:52, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

P.S. A quick heads up: the {{user Firefox}} template you use on your userpage appears to have been moved recently.

I started doing JavaScript on December 30, so I don't know everything yet. I'm not sure what your question is. If you look at the way I use my getGetParamValue function, does that help? Otherwise, go ask at Wikipedia Talk:WikiProject User scripts.

Hey, thanks for your answer. Frankly, it doesn't really since I'm trying to parse a page on-the-fly that the user hasn't looked at. What I'm trying to do is this: 1.) The user loads the article. 2.) The script grabs the 'what links here' page in the background without the user noticing and (from here on, it's a piece of cake). 3.) The script adds the div at the top or bottom of the article.

Right now, I'm not sure if this is even possible. I suppose it could be done using a server-side script but right now I'm too busy/lazy (interesting combination, btw ;) to bother since the 'what links here' page is just a click away. Thanks though. I'll see if I can come up with a way to fix this tomorrow and, failing that, I'll take it to the project's talkpage. Cheers, -- Seed 2.0 01:06, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

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