User talk:Dan East
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Hello. Please note: you don't need to write [[tsunami|tsunamis]], since writing [[tsunami]]s makes the whole word, including the final s, appear as a clickable link, and when it is clicked on, it goes to the article whose title appears inside the brackets. Similarly for [[hypen]]ated, [[logic]]al, [[Asia]]n, [[apocrypha]]l, etc. The vertical slash in the middle should be used for things like [[philosophy|philosophies]]. Michael Hardy 23:56, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hello Dan, Thanks for fixing my typos at Glacier, I will use a spell checker from now on :) . I still have a long way to go on that "Glacial" to "Glacier" translation. --JuanPDP 21:02, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] speedy deletion
Heya, thanks for helping out with cleaning up wikipedia! Could you add the speedy deletion tag to articles instead of replacing them with it though? It saves those of us doing the eventual deleting a few clicks. Thanks in advance. --fvw* 07:09, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
- Sure thing! I wasn't sure just how "speedily" the articles would be deleted, so I removed what bogus text they contained. I see you guys are on top of things! --Dan East 12:46, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks!
Hi, thanks for your comment on Hofstad Network. The vandals that add seemingly correct information are the most difficult to root out. I missed it, so good you pointed it out. cheers! Jacoplane 08:54, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Links from Individual Hardy Boys Articles
There is a discussion I referenced you (or you might be interested in) at [1]. --PhilipO 17:00, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
- When you are removing the links from those pages, please remove the copyrighted summaries also. Thanks.--FWDixon 11:45, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
- Sure thing. I'll remove them from remainder of the articles when they are unlocked, unless you beat me to it. :) --Dan East 17:35, August 28, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] use of "circa"
I believe you are using "circa" incorrectly. It is used when the exact date is not known, so "circa 1900" means roughly "between 1895 to 1905". If the month and day are not known circa should not be substituted. Here is the entry in the styleguide:
"Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch (1304 – 1374) was an Italian scholar, poet, and humanist, who is credited with having given the Renaissance its name and inventing the concept of the Dark Ages... "
The years are know exactly just not the day and month. Use of circa would mean the exact year in not know. In the ones you chaned the exact years were known, just not the birth day and month.
- Thanks for taking the time to inform me of that! --Dan East 00:37, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Book Title in Italics
Actually, my bad! Although I meant italics and put the book title in italics, my brain apparently locked up when I typed the edit summary. -- DS1953 04:21, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Re:{{unreferenced}}
If external links are in fact references, they should be labeled them as such, as they are not the same thing. I have been following the (Wikipedia:Cite_sources#External_links.2FFurther_reading which states clearly that ==External links== or ==Further reading== section is placed after the references section, and offers books, articles, and links to websites related to the topic that might be of interest to the reader, but which have not been used as sources for the article. Thus if article has only elinks or further reading, it has no references, and this template should be added. To fix it, please move the appopriate links from elink section to reference section, and it would help if you would link them via Wikipedia:Footnotes to the relevant facts int he article. One of the most common critique of Wiki is that our articles have no references. Please see also the Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check and [[Wikipedia:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards]. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 04:58, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
- What other template you'd suggest then, instead? Without reviewing the elinks it is hard to know if they are in fact references or not. Given the choice of spending an hour (or more) reading the related pages myself versus flagging the article and hoping its original contributors will notice and fix the problem much quicker, I opt for the second version.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 05:11, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Thank you
Thank you for the link repair work on Condensed Detachment. Nahaj 18:16, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] John Mark Karr
Why changed "raped" to "possibly sexually abused"? He's admitted sex with JonBenet, and sex with a minor is statutory rape whether it was consensual or not. wikipediatrix 13:31, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
- Because the physical evidence from the coroner does not indicate rape. At this point we have to assume that Karr's world is one of fiction, not fact. Thus we cannot say that JonBenét was raped based on Karr's statements - at least not until he's proven guilty. Take a look at the JonBenét Ramsey article - you will not find the word "rape" anywhere in that article. It states "The results of the autopsy revealed that ... she may have been sexually assaulted." --Dan East 14:20, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] John Mark Karr article
Thanks for being thorough, and discovering that the text was indeed supported by the source. I don't know if I could have made myself add that back in another time. ;) --Dan East 14:01, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
- No problem, sorry if I caused you extra work/time. I am on a mission to try to get material sourced and referenced if its going to be included on this project. Cheers! --Tom 14:12, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] A request for assistance
Would you support the concept of moving the Earhart "myths" to a separate page or article? The reason for my suggesting this is that the main article should be an accurate and scholarly work while the speculation and conspiracy theories surrounding the disappearance of Amelia Earhart are interesting, they belong in a unique section. Most researchers, as you know, discount the many theories and speculation that has arisen in the years following her last flight. Go onto the Earhart discussion page and register your vote/comments...and a Happy New Year to you as well. Bzuk 05:02 3 January 2007 (UTC).
