User talk:Bastique/archive2

Contents 1 Lanmguage proficiency color Question 2 Personal Question 3 Dréachtaí Úsáideoir Basteagh 4 Irish Towns infobox: population 5 Thanks Bastique 6 petrol 7 Thanks 8 Conchobar Maenmaige Ua Conchobhair 9 Re: Removing you?? 10 Did You Know ...? 11 Babel na Gaeilge 12 The magic míle 13 Translations 14 Babel colors 15 Yama's own space on my talk page 16 Hey! 17 COTW removal 18 Wikipedia:U.S. Southern wikipedians' notice board 19 Roaring Twenties 20 Wikipedia:Mind Benders 21 CotWs

[edit] Lanmguage proficiency color Question

I see you changed a number of the colors in the language proficiency templates. Is there an established and agreed guide as to how these should look? Please point me to this, I am very curious. Thanks. --Paletakis 13:06, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Just wanted to know - thanks for the explanation and best regards! --Paletakis 14:22, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Personal Question

I wonder if your initials are A E. If not, I know somebody you should meet. She's a fiction writer who likes all sorts of fantasy stories, writes erotica, is very involved with language of all sorts, is handy with a computer, and (incidentally) is a lesbian. And if I know her (I may be kidding myself, but I think I do. A little bit.), she would love Wikipedia -- until it tired her out. Ryan Prior 20:16, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

Looking over information about you, I entirely missed that you were a guy. I suppose that I was so intrigued between the similarities between you and AE that I didn't notice a quite real gender difference. In any case, if you'd like to check out some of AE's fictional writing, you can look at http://www.starharbornights.com - it contains a few finished storylines and many that stagnated when she had to take a break from the project. The stories are set in an origional superhero-esque world, but that world is distinctly flavored with her skeptical and sexual style.

I was a little unsure about the connection between you two anyway - if this were her account, her edit history would be packed full of edits to Buffy the Vampire Slayer-related pages. She's a self-proclaimed fanatic.

Cheers. Ryan Prior 21:41, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dréachtaí Úsáideoir Basteagh

Yeah, sure. Sorry, I kinda forgot about checking up on people, usually I just go to random pages and correct anything I see. By the way, Deisceart means south, the n is an úrú, it would just mean south of the city or whatever. After 'i'(meaning in) it would be 'ndeisceart'. Anyway, I'll check those things immediately. - Dalta 14:02, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Update:They're almost all grand, only thing wrong is the dot on the map is in the top corner now, in the middle of the Atlantic. By the way, all those additions are really great, thanks for the help.- Dalta 14:13, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Irish Towns infobox: population

Where are you getting the population stats for the likes of Terenure? Given the way the Dublin suburbs bleed into each other, I'm struggling to think how these figures could be arrived at. --Ryano 08:28, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your answer to the above. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place, but the only way I can come up with stats for Dublin suburbs is to add together the populations of the DEDs which include the name of the suburb in question. For example, adding together all the DEDs with "Terenure" in the name gives me 17,707, which is very close to your figure. Is this how you arrived at the figures, or is there a table showing populations of these suburbs which I'm not aware of? --Ryano 15:42, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'm not certain this approach of aggregating the population of DEDs is that useful in the case of Dublin suburbs. I'm fairly familiar with the DEDs in the Dublin South East area, and if you were to use the same approach for Rathmines you would include the population of Ranelagh as well as the populations of most of Donnybrook, Rathgar and even part of Terenure north-east of Terenure village. As you go further east, you could calculate the population of Pembroke, a township that hasn't existed for almost a century, but you couldn't calculate the populations of Sandymount, Ballsbridge or Donnybrook. These are just my thoughts - what do you think? --Ryano 21:41, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks Bastique

Thanks for your support on my Adminship request.Seabhcán 09:25, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] petrol

proponent

One who argues in support of something; an advocate.

proposal

A plan that is proposed.

 :-) - Omegatron 17:49, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

Don't mention it, Bastique :)

I often see spelling 'errors' go both ways: AE additions/edits on BE pages and BE additions/edits on AE pages (and from what I've seen, most are the former). Users need to check what type of spelling is being used before imposing their own variety. — Yama 11:01, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

While less than ideal, your reaction to Yama's remarks is understandable. My relatively mild replies (and non-replies) have required all of the restraint that I can muster. —Lifeisunfair 02:59, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks B for fixin my lazy spellin. CGorman 21:51, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Conchobar Maenmaige Ua Conchobhair

And wikify it some more too! It's got a great deal of information but so hard to navigate! --Bastique 02:10, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Fair comment. I am open to all and any suggestions. Fergananim

[edit] Re: Removing you??

Well, thank you then ;) I wasn't sure if I needed to be an irish to be part of that list. I'd like to help you in en.wiki also, but my english isn't so good. Excuse me for my grammar errors. :)

If you need some photos or infos, don't hesitate and contact me. I'll upload soon a bunch of photos about Cong, County Mayo, and other photos I did in Ireland last august. Ciao ;) or in irish gaelic.. slán!

Kanchelskis ♣ talk

[edit] Did You Know ...?

Dear Bastique (someday you'll have to tell me where that name comes from), how do I get an article mentioned on the "Did You Know ...?" section on the main wikipedia page? Thanks. Fergananim

[edit] Babel na Gaeilge

I see you are a master of templates. Can you explain to me exactly how I can introduce Babel to the Irish language Vicipéid.

Hey Bastique, I created a fr thing for the babel, to help out and I'm about to start a de one. When you're ready I can create the Babel page for you, we just need to get the template now. P.S. I didn't write the above thing but I was going to try start a Babel thing on ga. - Dalta (16:45)

Yeah, what you used is fine. Generally they only use the -óir ending for Irish. - Dalta 11:37, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Most of the language names in Irish are on the main page, at the bottom where it says 'Teangacha éagsúla'(or something similar). I'll try to add as many as I can now. P.S. You don't know how to create bots do you?- Dalta 13:35, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I fixed the ga-0 and the page with ga-0 at the top. Only problem is the Babel/ga-0 page has French in all the other languages. i.e. The English one says 'If you have no french, put fr-0 on your user page'. It'll be grand to translate the english one, but what's Irish in Arabic?

As to the Benutzer thing, I have no idea, I copied the de thing straight from the English one. You could ask ga:Úsáideoir:Angr, he lives in Germany or ga:Úsáideoir:Netzrack.N, he's German.

Is there a need to extend the intro on the Babel page itself? I know the French one is much better, but I think the main points are covered, what do you think? - Dalta 18:37, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

And don't worry about the bot thing, it'ld just be handy to have a bot for interwiki links. And Ryanaxp was only giving a friendly well done on creating the Babel. - Dalta 18:47, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The magic míle

I think we should, but what can we do? It's taken us a year and it's been emotional, we should have a special barnstar or something, or put up a banner saying we've reached a thousand, with the 1000th article there. What do you think? - Dalta 13:07, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

We could have it on dildos or something, then have a big display on dildos on the main page. What a way to attract new users, eh?

My contribution here for that one, and thank you for the praise :). I added the Italian templates on the Irish Babel, but the categories need some work, and my irish stops at Rang, for category :) notafish }<';> 00:48, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I tried my hand at a template for the thousandth article. It's here: ga:Múnla:mílealt, it says in the top line, 'Vicipéid now has one thousand articles. Congratulations to us.', then in the bottom it says 'alt was the thousadnth article. Click on a red link to create an article.' It's stolen from the Wikipedia main page and it's preety scant. You got any ideas for sprucing it up a bit? Maybe making it not so blatantly stolen from wikipedia. - Dalta 19:51, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Aye, it's good, but should the writing be changed? Something more exciting, more celebratory maybe. - Dalta 23:22, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Translations

Hey man, I was looking you use babelfish to translate my articles. If you need, I can translate them to english, that isn't perfect but almost good. Maybe I can write the article on en.wiki and then you can correct my eventual grammar mistakes.

Another thing, are you interested in a logo for us Irish Active Wikipedians? It would be cool inserting it in our personal pages ;) What do you think? Slán go foill Kanchelskis ♣ talk

[edit] Babel colors

Hi, thank you for your critical comment on the colors. I do not insist on the colors which I chose here. I rather grabbed the first distinctive sets I could get ahold of. And I confess that I'm not a person with a good sense for optical aesthetics. If you do have a better proposal which you think would be agreeable for a majority of other users, please just tell me and I would redo the whole thing one more time. :-/ My point was just to have a clearcut optical distinction between the different competence levels, because if you surf around other Babel lists and look at long lists as mine, without any color differences you would get absolutely lost (cf. the list on my German page: [1]). As for international uniformity: innovation always has to start somewhere, hasn't it? If the idea is accepted here, it can spread to other Wikipedias. If you think I should hand in a late explanation to the discussion page, I would do so. At the moment I just hesitate a bit to discuss the very colors there, because this maybe would not lead to anything but quarrel about taste. But I don't know what is best. Any suggestions about how to deal with it now are absolutely welcome! HV 22:49, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hello. You've been changing the colors of the Babel templates a little, haven't you? Well, when I checked my profile some time ago, everything seemed way cooler than it was before (with the orange and everything). Not that I like orange that much, but it's the combo that made it look nice. However, you've changed it back, right? =[

Well, I just wanted to tell I think it was pertty cool the way it was before. At least on the ones I use. I don't know if that helps, though. I know how relative this is. But here's my opinion anyway.

Thanks for listening. Keep up. =] --Kaonashi 04:28, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'm awarding you a big gold star for changing the templates back; my user page no longer looks like the Vegas strip. Good work! Essjay · talk 06:39, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for doing the whole color change. Apparently the judgement about the colour scheme depends on the combination of language levels. I would say my first try looks better, when somebody has a complete list from level 1-3 + mothertongue, but it indeed looks awful, when one color is missing, like e.g. in your table. On the other hand your scheme looks very nice when there is no level-3 in between, but if it is, something looks not very perfect. To find an optimal solution one would maybe have to try out the colors with all possible combinations. :-/ Anyway, I am glad that there is a color distinction now and think that your correction is a step into the right direction :-) HV 07:21, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Yama's own space on my talk page

Available for his/her personal unedited use.

[edit] Hey!

The lower bit of Charlestown (about No One Shouted Stop) was written by me about ten minutes ago, not a copyvio... --Kiand 14:44, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] COTW removal

I read and enjoy your comments.(Australia goes down under, LOL). I do hope people look at this list too Wikipedia:Collaboration_of_the_week/Removed/Summary because even though it doesn't consider itself important I believe it is a very useful tool. Falphin 02:59, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:U.S. Southern wikipedians' notice board

I have now reopened the notice board, if you are interested in contributing new topics, or in nominating articles for the Collaboration of the Week, which also received a revamp. Please post on the project's talk page if you show interest. Mike H 02:40, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

Have you ever considered joining some Wikipedians in mIRC chat? I'm there all the time, usually. Mike H 04:48, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties page was recently moved to, the 1920's in North America by SPUI. Please help, he moved it without discussing it.(I reverted the move). Falphin 02:53, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Mind Benders

Hello! I've noticed your interest in creating logos, barnstars, or your past artistic ability! Thus, I just wanted to let you know that the pre-round, an artistic competition, is now open at Wikipedia:Mind Benders (Shortcut: WP:MIND)! The competition is open to everyone and is seeking a logo/trophy, similar to Barnstars, to be placed on every winner's page. We urge you to help us out and submit an entry! Afterwards, the normal rounds, each consisting of ten or more fun, logical, brain-stimulating questions will open. Why don't you give it a try when it opens! Look forward to seeing your contribution. Thanks, Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 21:54, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] CotWs

Hiya Bastique, I'm wondering why you're changing the layout and order of the nominated collaborations of the week from the default template style, {{newcotw}}, and also moving the newest nominated articles to the bottom of the list, when the procedure for nomination says to add them to the top of the list. Could you explain, as it just seems a curious thing to do? Talrias (t | e | c) 17:03, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I've replied on Wikipedia talk:Collaborations of the week. Cheers, Talrias (t | e | c) 17:30, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)