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[edit] Older talk since 2002

You left me a message about the hacker's manifesto, AFAIK it was released under the public domain thats i felt comfortable adding it to wikipedia Lightning 19:47, Mar 20, 2004 (UTC)

Welcome to the 'pedia! Good work on the Library of Congress articles. maveric149

Hey Eclecticology -- I hope you don't mind me moving some of the Latin articles to their Anglicized equivalents (and in some cases their common names) -- I mean nothing by it. However, when ITIS lists an English equivalent (or a widely known common name that means essentially the same thing), could we use that and redirect the Latin to it? It just sounds overly pedantic to use the Latin all the time -- I don't know any biologists that talk or even write like that outside the most academic of the scientific literature (and wikipedia ain't that at all). When I do see the Latin, it is almost always in parenthesis after the Anglicized if not common name or within a cladogram/taxonomic tree. I'm not at all saying that you in any way have an academic writing style --- I'm just concerned that creating articles titled with the Latin names encourages that type of writing in others (with everyone else using pipes to hide the Latin). --maveric149

User:Two16 looking for your input on astrological topic. I've read Your coments in horoscope you seem NPOV. It could be fun because Bcrowell has left the community : see his comments on the village pump. It took a lot of dogged and committed posting to hold his rabid scientific reducftionist funsdamentalism in check.please see my posts for astrologer ephemeris table of houses talk:horoscopeand what horoscope looks like now

Two16 There is probably more going on with bcrowell than he let on at the village pump. The posts in Talk:horoscope did not go well for him. His ossified world view was shown up as he clumsily grasped at straws and ignored basic logic. Ultimately he made embarrassing mistakes in physics and silly completeness statements about science (his strongly held views and his profesion) which I showed him were demostrably false. His ego is massively hurt : he cleared out all incriminating material from the history.

Scientists always lose arguements about science, with philosophers of science.

Bonjour Ec,

Nous avons un problème sur la fr. Relatif à User:Faré, au liberalism, libertarianism, minarchism et touti quanti. Une des accusations portées contre lui est qu'il aurait volontairement essayé de nous tromper en mélangeant les terminologies

Faré, un ardent liberal, aurait mis dans fr:libéralisme grosso-modo, le contenu de en:libertarianism puis "truque" les liens interwiki pour, depuis fr:libéralisme, arriver sur en:libertarianism plutôt que sur en:liberalism.

Bon, il lui est aussi reproché d'écrire de façon biaisée (autrement dit dans ce cas, de parler assez lourdement de ce qui le passionne - je pense etre donc parfaitement biaisée aussi :-))). Passons.

Ma question n°1 : la traduction de liberalism est elle liberalisme, ou les deux idéologies sont elles en réalité des faux amis ?

Idem pour libertarianism ? Le mot libertarianisme existe t il en français et recouvre t il la meme signification qu en anglais ?

Enfin, sais tu si qn sur en, connais suffisemment le sujet pour jeter un coup d oeil sur toutes les modifs apportées par Faré sur ces thématiques (ainsi que sur l anarchisme qu il a très lourdement retouché sur en) ?

Merci pour toutes infos.

Notre pb, au dela de l'expression très partisane de Faré, est que visiblement aucun des détracteurs de Faré ne semble connaitre le libéralisme, et qu'ils ont une méchante tendance à confondre la "neutralité" avec un plat de nouilles à l'eau. Rien de nouveau.


(note : je ne connais rien au sujet du libéralisme, et assez peu des idéologies politiques en général)

Le second, est que Faré est un coutumier de en, donc utilise des liens en: dans les discussions. Or, il n'y a pas de différences d'affichage entre un lien vide et un lien plein. Il est donc accusé de pratiquer l'entourloupe.

Le 3ème est qu'il s'obstine à appeler ces détracteurs des "cocos" :-)))). Mais il est vrai que s'exprime contre lui une véritable chasse aux sorcières. Bon, c'était en passant. Curieusement, en regardant l'historique de certains articles anglais, je vois un utilisateur User:Fare (sans accent). Je me demande si c'est le meme, et je me demande si notre utilisateur actuel est vraiment le même que le votre actuel.

Bon week end.

User:Anthere

Merci pour ta réponse Ec. Je n'avais jamais entendu parler du mot libertarianisme (fr) avant d arriver sur wiki, mais en venait a me demander si ce n etait pas un mot typiquement canadian (Faré ayant écrit sur une revue québécoise, je suppose qu'il est canadien francophone...). Apparemment, ce n est donc pas si clair. Maintenant, meme si le mot n existe pas en français, le concept existe (ailleurs), donc il faut en parler. Comment parle t on d un concept pour lequel on a pas de mot ? :-)

Pour les choses essentielles, oui. Les trois choses importantes que je vois dans cette affaire, sont l intolérance majeure de la part de 3/4 contributeurs face au biais de Faré (considérée contre de la tromperie et du vandalisme), refus de discuter le désaccord (ie, on supprime la page et le problème est résolu), le comportement peu agréable de Faré face à cela (moquerie, usage de termes peu sympathiques, tels que "mon coco") et usage hier de "protection de la page" par un sysop impliqué dans une guerre d'édition avec Faré sur "communisme". En bref, manque de coopération et abus d'administrateur. Burk. Bon, affaire à suivre. Merci en tous cas. User:Anthere

PS : tu n'as pas tort pour "clique", mais d'un autre coté, le terme "type" ne recèle qu'à peine l'aspect péjoratif. Nous n'avons probablement pas d'expression équivalente, meme si "type" ou "genre" est apparemment la meilleure. Je comprend l'aspect "association".

I hope you checked my edit summaries for both scientific method and interpretations of the scientific method

[edit] Greek names

Hi Ec. Sorry, I didn't understand your reply about the Greek names of states in Wiktionary. Did you mean there is no point putting it there or that it should be moved there? Thanks. Angela 21:47, Nov 5, 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. Angela

gg==Battles==

Hi there! Just wanted to know, why you changed name of batlle Grotniki to Grotnik? This makes no sense. Village is called Grotniki, not Grotnik.

Another one, i returned to wikipedia and i am happy that someone is continuing the efforts with uniforming battles. I wonder only why you abandoned standard links i suggested earlier? I can't find any discussion about it. szopen

As for Grotniki, I assume the case is solved. Battle of Grotniki, not Grotnik (the village was called Grotniki).

As for links: see e.g. Battle of Tannenberg (1410)


Hi Eclecticology

You may want to look at the Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers). One of the things that is said there, and its important, is that you should not use numbers to represent months. It's not too bad if you are always going to write YYYY-MM-DD, but as soon as you omit the year then the day becomes confusing. '05-03' means different things in Europe and America. As for creating 366 redirects, that seems rather a lot of work when you could just write the link names in the six or seven places you currently have links already. You might also want to ask some other people what they think. Remember that styles like this are about making things understandable for everybody. The current styles are widely used in thousands of articles, and your style in not so many. DJ Clayworth 14:29, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I also want to add that your date formats are not being picked up by the automatic date formatting feature, which will annoy many people. You should really keep all dates in a format that Wikipedia understands and can convert. No offence intended, but I'm going to edit President of India to show you what I mean (check out the date format in Special:Preferences). DJ Clayworth 15:39, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi, Ec. First can I say that we all like the President of India article. There is some good stuff there. However many Wikipedians have discussed the question of date formats, and we would prefer to keep them in a standard format that Wiki can understand. Plus the redirects that have to be created to make your dating work are ambiguous: 05-03 means 5th March in Europe and 3rd May in the US. We had to put a disambiguation in to make it clear, which means that if you click on some of your date links you go to a page asking you which date you mean.

Once again, thanks for your contribution and keep up the good work. DJ Clayworth 23:29, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi Ec -- I know you haven't been a major contributor to 2002 Gujarat violence, but I just wanted to let you know that Angela asked me to mediate, and I am in the process of reviewing (I would not characterize it as "investigating") the article, the edit history of the article and its talk page, the various comments linked to this page, and the email traffic here, here, here, here, and here (and a few other threads) on the mailing list related to it. Even though the page is unprotected, I would ask all parties involved to hold off editing this article voluntarily until I can offer a few suggestions, which I will do within a few hours. Thanks for your forbearance, BCorr ¤ Брайен 14:36, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I have posted a comment on the talk page of Politics of Canada. This page features by far the most accurate and neutral summary of the Canada/Quebec constitutional issue I have ever read in English. Whoever wrote it, congratulations. Who is responsible for this article? Mathieugp

[edit] Dates...

It was decided at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion that the date-redirects you were making are not necessary. They were deleted because they serve no purpose. Please stop re-creating them. thanks! Kingturtle 06:21, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Please explain why you continue to create these redirects? We want to understand. Kingturtle 06:35, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Ec, this isn't looking good. You're going to have to stop and discuss, or else I'm going to have to do something. -- Tim Starling 06:49, Nov 17, 2003 (UTC)

You're not going to be blocked anyway, in the short term. Brion said no. -- Tim Starling 07:04, Nov 17, 2003 (UTC)

How are my deletions "a breach of truce". The outcome of VfD was completely clear, and I'm hardly the only one deleting them. Have you seen the Deletion log? You behaviour is completely unacceptable. Angela 07:06, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Ec, do you realise the dynamic date software automatically creates piped links to whatever date format is the site standard? [[2003]]-[[03-11]] will automatically be converted to [[2003]]-[[March 11|03-11]] , as soon as that feature is implemented. -- Tim Starling 07:25, Nov 17, 2003 (UTC) [clarification added following Brion's comment below, TS]

That doesn't appear to be the case. Would be a nice feature and save a lot of useless anger, though. Is that supposed to work? --Brion 07:23, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)

A truce in January? I wasn't even here in January and I can find no such discussion. The only way these can stay is if they are in a disambiguation format, but it seems you are willing to allow those. Have you looked at how much work you are causing everyone? Can you please please just stop and discuss this? Angela 07:21, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)

There was no such truce. Have you no respect for the views of people who are quite clearly against this? If it wasn't for the fact that Brion thinks the sky might fall in if a redirect is ever deleted, you may have actually been blocked over this. That ought to tell you something about how wrong this is. Angela 07:31, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)

So you were doing it to prove a point about VfD? (What is the smiley icon for raised eye-brows?). Anyway, Tim is going to code something which will supposedly solve your date issues and will hopefully stop your desire to create any more. That doesn't solve your VfD issues though whatever they might be. Angela 08:11, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Ec, I am sorry for taking this so seriously earlier. I should never have wasted so much time arguing about the existence of such pages.

I agree that co-operating on matters such as transfers to Wiktionary would be far more a productive use of our time.

With apologies,
Angela

[edit] Transwiki

I really like that idea, and it doesn't necessarily have to involve any developer time either, as it could just be a fake namespace, certainly until something more permanent could be coded. This solves the problem of Wikipedians not wanting to move stuff to Wiktionary because they don't know how to format the entries correctly. If they could just leave it in the transwiki namespace without worrying about formatting, it would make things a lot easier, and as this namespace would reside at Wiktionary, there is more chance of Wiktionarians knowing about it and working on it. Eventually, when the search feature is turned back on, it would be better to have this as a real namespace, because then you could search for just for the transwiki articles, but until then, a database query could be used to find them all every couple of weeks, for example, to ensure people knew they existed. Do you think the idea has to go to the mailing list or can it just be implemented? Angela 20:25, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Votes for Deletion

Votes for Deletion" is not a tyranny of the majority, as you have called it.

VfD exists to prevent any single administrator from going hog-wild with deletion power. VfD keeps that power of the individual in check by entailing a process of time and community input. The deletion process, therefore, is not an individual act, but an act of many. It is not a tyranny, but a process that involves all users.

You seem to see VfD as a conspiracy of "deletionists," but in fact, plenty of users make arguments to keep articles; moreover, a good number of users edit articles to save them. Conflicting points of view are often discussed regarding nominated articles. A good number of articles survive the process. What I am describing is not tyranny, it is in the vicinity of fairness.

Sincerely,

Kingturtle 23:42, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi Ec, I drafted a page about m:Transwiki on Meta. Angela 06:53, 20 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I hope you don't mind me running off with your idea, but I added some details about how the process would work at m:Transwiki. Can you give it a quick check to see if it's going in the direction you had planned it to. Thanks. Angela 23:01, 20 Nov 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Abuse of power??

Protecting a page to stop an edit war is not an abuse of sysop powers unless you have been personally involved with the page, which I had not. If you are so concerned about the fact I protected that page that you feel the need to tell the entire mailing list that I am abusing my sysop privileges, I would appreciate it if you could discuss the issue with me first. Angela 20:37, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Yes I was referring to Sunset High School. You said on the list that anyone who had blocked the page was abusing powers, which clearly refers to me as I was one of the three people who did this.
What is "your admission of guilt" supposed to mean? I am not guilty of anything, nor have I admitted such.
I reverted the article to its protected state because it should not have been unprotected. I do this when any sysop edits a protected page they shouldn't. [1]. It has nothing to do with my POV. I don't happen to have one on this, which is why I was able to protect the page in the first place. I would not protect a page in which I had expressed a POV, or a page I had ever edited. Angela 00:14, 28 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hello Ec.

I wanted to know how much influence the French Academia still has on Canada ? Does it have any juridiction ? I suppose no, but I just want to check. Is there a sort of similar organ for french Canada ? That is to work against french pov. Thanks PomPom

Thanks Ec :-)

Okay, that is a good day :-) I took the decision to do what I have been willing to do since beginning of november. I just hesitated too long :-) I had hoped the press release would be my last email to the ml talking about the french wikipedia, at least to have a good laugh, but well...no one is perfect :-)

Shall take care of more rewarding matters now.

my best

PomPom 20:32, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

All I've wanted since last April with regard to that article was a good place to put it. I can't thank you enough. - Hephaestos 04:34, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Good point about the space at the end, I'll probably make that change (probably to (born 1987) as pointed out on the talk page) when I get back from work (can't imagine anyone objecting to that if they didn't object to the other). Good point also about how this might not be the end of it for some, but it's a nice respite anyway.  :) - Hephaestos 15:25, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)
And yes, it has started again. - Hephaestos 15:58, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)

It wasn't my idea. I was just following the suggestions made about the page when it was listed on VfD:

  • source text referring to Australian court case. Secretlondon
  • Delete, source document is entirely inappropriate, could be moved to Wikisource.... Daniel Quinlan
  • Delete, source document. Maximus Rex

However, surely all the parts starting "At paragraph xxx" are source text even if the beginning isn't? I certainly don't think that the text in the form in which it is now at Wikisource is appropriate for Wikipedia, but I don't think we have enough guidelines yet to determine whether it is suitable for Wikisource. Angela, desperately awaiting a What Wikisource is not page. :)


[edit] Israel independance

Your orphan contribution at Wikisource Israel's declaration of statehood duplicates what was already there at Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel. Please remove it and avoid creating these orphan entries. ☮ Eclecticology 08:43, 2003 Dec 13 (UTC)

I am sorry I am not aware of every page that exists at Wikisource. There are over 1000 pages now, so the lack of redirects is going to lead to duplicated entries. I don't think criticising people for making such errors is a good way to encourage participation in the project. Orphan entries can be sorted out by anyone interested in doing that by using the lonely pages function. It's a wiki, so the point is someone else will come along and make improvements and solve these issues. It's not finished. These things will sort themselves out in time. Don't stress about it! Angela. 14:39, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)


[edit] Help wanted: Spirituality Portal

Hi. Just saw that you are familiar with astrology and parapsychology. I am looking for ppl to help me finish User:Optim/Spirituality Portal. You are welcome to have a look at the page and the talk page and tell me your opinion. If you like we can cooperate and find more ppl knowledgeable in these areas so that we will create something great. if you like to help, write your message in the talk page of the Spirituality Portal. if you know other ppl who could help, tell me their usernames so that I can comunicate with them. Also Check User talk:Optim/Spirituality Portal. Thank you! Peace Profound Optim 21:10, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada

I understand. I simply was not aware of Wikisource at all when I decided to put a translation and orignal copy of it on wikipedia. When I did learn of Wikisource, I just dumped it there. I will put more relevant details on the subject so people can understand what the historical context is. -- Mathieugp 21:13, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hi Eclecticology. Just added some responses on Talk:Mars_effect. Not changed the actual page else we're going to get into a silly edit war about a few odd words. Spellbinder 09:02, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)

You may disagree with my edit to Academie Francaise, but I'll thank you not to describe it as "vandalism." The article was a mess and is still a mess.Adam 00:58, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)

The incomplete list was very confusing and unattractive. My view is that the complete list should be worked on off-site and not included in the article until it is finished. In the meantime there should be a list of current members, which is what the majority of visitors to the article will be looking for. However since you are working on the article and I am not I will wait and see how things develop. Adam 02:25, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hi! Have now found your other communications on my user page at wikipedia. Yes writing about esoteric matters such as the Quaternity invariably draws a blank at the 'pedia . It is a rather specialised Jungian psychological term. Shall post the full Latin titles to the three pieces at wikisource when i have time.Norwikian 04:16, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hi. On the List of painters are you using American as a synonym for United States? If so would you object to using something like "U.S." in the listings? Cheers, -- Infrogmation 23:29, 31 Jan 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Initials

You removed the phrase

Modern typographical practice in book and newspaper publishing leans towards the latter.

from Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions declaring it "unsubstantiated". I don't know where you live but where I live I don't see any books or newspapers using the periods-with-spaces style. As far as I can tell, it went out of fashion in the ~1960s. Fine, you can adhere to the in this case outmoded prescript of the style guides, but that is called pedantry. Also, I would be reluctant to submit every issue on wikipedia to a vote, but it seems that for essentially aesthetical issues, which is what this is, it is not at all inappropriate. -- Viajero 09:35, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I read again the democide article, and it should be stated, that Germans weren't victims of democide after WW2. There were few massacres committed by Red Army, there were bombing and torpedoing evacuation ships and trains, accidental revange. Probably also hunger deaths. The fantastic number 2 100 000 is out of the question for total number of victims. But democide requires the active government to organise the crime. Seaman 10:15, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Revisionism

Your using the therm "Revisionism" is unappropriate. Revisionism is used to name the alternative history findings that denies crticly proved historical events. There is no consensus, that there occured democide of Germans caused by their expulsion after WW2. The population transfer was agreed on Potsdam conference to avoid ethnic clashes and was ordered be performed in ordered and humanitarian way. There were no intention of general slaughter of Germans nor there were ever signals that transfer fails the criteria set by the victorius powers. The whole issue belongs to alternative history and was created by number play and factual forgery. Germans were set in motion by advancing Red Army. During winter evacuation happenned frequent tragedies, like Gustlof torpedoing with some 5 000 victims. However, the organized population transfer, that happenned after the war didn't caused a lot of such a tragedies. Cautious 10:03, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

About Democide. I put new interesting material in the talk page. Please put your comments and try to reply my arguments. Cautious 22:43, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I see that you're now in the crossfire of Adam Carr (the Joe McCarthy of Wiki) at Talk:Kim Jong Il. If he continues to spew his mindless ad hominems and slogans, don't even dignify him with a response. BTW, sorry about how the admin issue turned out. I was shocked that anyone would oppose your nomination. I respect Angela, but I regretted the bandwagon effect of her opposition. 172 13:00, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Hey Eclecticology

Just wondering, what aspect of Welteislehre disqualifies it from being a pseudo science. I looked over the article and it looks to fit right in. Everything I read on it referred to it as pseudo science as well. Yardcock 20:34, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hi. Since you've done so much POV work on Fidel Castro, I'd appreciate it if you could take a look at this new article called Allegations of human rights abuses in Castro's Cuba. I'm not personally familiar with Cuban history and if I removed everything that sounds POV, there would be nothing left.

Diderot 17:20, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hah! You two think that you can "wear me down" on the Castro page? Good luck, you will need it. TDC 15:11, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Paul Smith

Thank you for your message. I mistakenly thought he had blanked your user page and replaced it with his text, as he has done so in the past with the article. I made the assumption that that you would see on your watchlist that your user page had been changed, and would investigate the reason. I will continue to do the same for other users besides you when I feel their page has been vandalized, as others have done so for me. As for your page, and the article itself, you can rest assured that I will lift no finger to correct anything he adds. -- Decumanus | Talk 12:24, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for replying. I appreciate it. I too am distrurbed that Paul seems to have Jimbo on his side somehow. -- Decumanus | Talk 16:23, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Astrology & Newton

With regard to Newton on the Astrology page, why did you put the reference to alchemy in, when the books listed on the talk page have nothing to do with alchemy? Mintguy (T) 15:22, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

You said - Although there is no serious claim to Newton's being involved in astrology, the same cannot be said about alchemy. The astrological and astronomical concepts of the time did tend to be commonly imported in the study of alchemy. Eclecticology 18:29, 2004 Apr 23 (UTC)
No doubt. But the four books that Newton possessed, that are listed on the Astrology talk page, that mentioned Astrology were not more concerned with Alchemy. Mintguy (T) 20:01, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Do you want to make some comments at Talk:Augusto Pinochet#Another poll? 172 15:19, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] In need of community support

I'm in need of community support.

Right now, I am on the verge of being driven away from Wikipedia through the relentless efforts of a single problem user on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/172, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration, and Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/172 vs VeryVerily.

The same user who refuses to accept the results of the Augusto Pinochet poll (see also [2]) goes through my user history every time he logs on and then starts reverting things that I've written arbitrary. He manages to divert attention away from the articles onto ad hominem attacks, thus poisoning the well against me. [3]

He has been doing nothing else for the past couple of months, other than making some minor changes to pages that he finds through the random page feature. Meanwhile, I've been working on articles such as Empire of Brazil, Dollar Diplomacy, and Franco-U.S. relations. I'm tired of letting a problem user define my contributions to the encyclopedia, as opposed to my work.

I may have said some regrettable things in the past, but my editing practices are scholarly and methodical. When I make an edit, my choice is based on a consideration of the quality of the encyclopedia. Unlike the user who avowedly admits to trying to escalate a personal feud (see, e.g., [4]), I do not decide which pages to edit and what changes to make on the basis of personality feuds, emotional POV whims, or a desire to get attention.

Although this user shows little evidence that he understands the content of the articles, I have shown considerable restraint, given my professional expertise. [5]. Only through community support (i.e. lobbying the arbitration committee)will this user be stopped. Otherwise, Wikipedia will die unless we stop vandals and clueless POV-pushers from running rampant and driving away valued contributors.

Please feel free to direct questions and comments to my talk page or e-mail at sokolov47@yahoo.com.

Sincerely,

172 01:51, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

Hi Eclecticology, I've made a request for mediation regarding the astrology page. Are you willing to go to mediation? --Bcrowell 15:00, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Meetup in Seattle

Ec, Michael Snow and I are planning a meetup of Wikipedians in Seattle, probably at the downtown library on the 6th of November. I am trying to contact any Wikipedian I know in the general area so they can start looking at calendars -- I know you listed yourself in B.C., but I don't know if that's the lower mainland or Kamloops. On the off chance that it's the former, I thought you'd want to know about it, even if the drive might be too daunting. If you want to know more, right now details are being hashed out on my talk page and Michael's. We'll have a page up at Wikipedia:Meetup in the next few days. Have a good autumn, and I'll hope to see you on the 6th. Jwrosenzweig 22:32, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Eric Bogle

I didn't know you were a fan! *grin* Ambi 10:57, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] "If I can be of help" offer

My offer was more in general, than a request for an assignment... I always offer help when I ask for help, just as I always attend to one or two pages on 'pages needing attention' when I list a page there. I also don't like to generate tasks for others to do, but I am always eager to repay assistance in kind. It is simply a custom I have adopted. Thanks for your quick response. I imagine I will eventually be very active in wiktionary, as I am on wikipedia, but for now, I just dropped in to request an entry for the phrase cat and mouse, cat-and-mouse game or whatever would be appropriate as I have seen the expression redlinked on wikipedia and do not think an encyclopedia entry is warranted for it, Nice to meet you.Pedant 01:54, 2004 Oct 25 (UTC)

[edit] Meetup

Ray--do I have your name right?--I think I heard someone call you that. It was great to meet you today. I put up some pictures at Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle including a couple of you, by the way. Best wishes. --Matt Decumanus 09:09, 2004 Nov 7 (UTC)


[edit] Project Genealogy

Dear E, remember discussions on Wikipedia:WikiProject Genealogy abt a year or two ago? Reading through the discussion page, it appears to me, the project was false related, under hoobies, when the topic for my suggestions was in fact History/noble or royal ancestry or similair, which fits the data more into history rather than hobbies. maybe more people would now be interested to loominto this if it was placed ona proprite place? Ideas? Can u move it? here is an example how it is implemented on the swedish wikipedia: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_XII:s_antavla (ancestry of Charles XII of Sweden) Dan Koehl 11:13, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started the Free the Rambot Articles Project which has the goals of getting users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to...

  1. ...all U.S. state, county, and city articles...
  2. ...all articles...

using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) version 1.0 and 2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to the GFDL (which every contribution made to Wikipedia is licensed under), but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles (See the Multi-licensing Guide for more information). Since you are among the top 1000 most active Wikipedians, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles.

Nutshell: Wikipedia articles can be shared with any other GFDL project but open/free projects using the incompatible Creative Commons Licenses (e.g. WikiTravel) can't use our stuff and we can't use theirs. It is important to us that other free projects can use our stuff. So we use their licenses too.

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

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OR

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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 at my talk page what you think. -- Ram-Man 18:06, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Red Ensign

Why do you say the usage of the red ensign by neo-nazi groups is "irrelevent"? AndyL 14:37, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

So then the fact that the confederate flag was revived in the 1960s by various white supremacist groups in the south shouldn't be mentioned in an article on the confederate flag? The usage of flags is certainly germane to articles about a flag.. Should it necessarily be the main point of the article? No. But to avoid any mention at all would be negligent. The point is the Candian red ensign fell into disuse in the 1960s and has been rarely seen until then. Very few people fly it today. By far the largest group that does use the flag is neo-nazis who have adopted it as their Canadian symbol in oppoisition to the "multiculturalist" maple leaf. There is no reason not to mention that in passing in an article on the red ensign. It is certainly relevent. The fact that this is embarassing to the few other red ensign supporters in the country, those who are not neo-nazis, is not a good reason for non-inclusion. Our point in writing articles is not to "protect" the reputation of the topic (in this case the red ensign), to exclude material for that reason is POV. AndyL 15:43, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] January 15 Seattle meetup

Just wanted to let you know we are planning another Seattle meetup on January 15, 2005. We're trying to get a sense of who will attend, so please drop by that page & leave a note. -- Jmabel | Talk 23:40, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)

  • About the meetup...thanks for your concern. I really would love to come, but honestly, I can't see my parents driving me three, four hours to Seattle to do it. Maybe if it were in Vancouver. Ah well, what can you do, right? PMC 01:14, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Whole Earth Catalog

We will have images of every page of the first four Whole Earth Catalogs on wikisource; I hope that makes it appropriate for the project. I have a copyright release from the original publishers, Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelly. The source images should go on wikisource and the OCR'ed text + images on wikibooks, for updating with more recent information... talk to me more about this later in the week, once I've fully processed the new year.  :-)

Cheers, +sj + 07:48, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mysteries of the Korean language

Hi: Okay, let me shake the cobwebs off as I temporarily step out of wikiretirement. Sorry for the late reply. Anyhow, I've added the requested article. The "Hun-eum reading" line was added by a bot (not mine), whose operator I asked to later correct to "Eumhun reading." I redirected the article Hun-eum to Eumhun, and added an explanation of the concept. (If it's too encyclopedic for Wiktionary, someone can cut it down to size!) While I was at it, I updated the section Meaning and Sound on the Wikipedia Hanja page as well. -Sewing - talk 13:37, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia talk:No original research

One of your contributions last December to Wikipedia:No original research ("it purports to refute another idea") is now being challenged; you might want to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:No original research. Jayjg (talk) 03:11, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Poll: Inclusion of Biblical figures at List of occultists

I have put up a poll concerning the inclusion of Solomon, Jesus, and the Three Wise Men at Talk:List of occultists. As someone who has contributed to the page in the past, your input is invited. -- Smerdis of Tlön 04:54, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List of Godfathers

Hello Eclecticology. I hope you don't mind but I did some minor editing on the List of godfathers. I would have alphabetized them or list them by era although I wasn't sure which order should they be in ? 209.213.71.78 21:18, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 22:59, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wiktionary

Super :) Let me know, here or on meta, when you have a couple paras written; you can just add the paras themselves directly to the m:Talk:WQ/Draft page. +sj + 16:23, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Great! Let me know when you have something written up. Trying to publish something short next week... +sj + 01:37, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vasco da Gama

An article that you've edited before (Vasco da Gama) is nominated for Article Improvement Drive. If you want go there and vote. Thanks. Gameiro 02:58, 31 August 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Wikimania 2006 Vancouver

I've sent a message out to the Vancouver Linux User Group in regards to info/feedback on Wikimania in Vancouver. I think its a great idea.--Simon.Pole 00:05, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

It's a great idea. UBC would be an ideal place to host it in the summer. If we start talking to UBC now, we could arrange for residences to be available as accomodation (I know they do this for other conferences). With wikipedia's academic interest, I think UBC would be very accomodating in the slow summer months when conferences is their main buisiness. I won't be around campus much this term, but would be willing to donate what little time I have to help this project go forward. If there are any CS students at UBC here, I bet that bringing this to the attention of a prof or two might open unexpected doors. Posters and whatnot in the CS buildings of UBC and SFU would also bring out people willing to help put on this kind of conference. -Lommer | talk 00:38, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
A brief look through the "what links here" pages for UVic, UBC, and SFU revealed several student wikipedians. Many were from SFU, so perhaps that would be a good place to hold events as well? (Volunteers are hard to find, if we already have leads that's a good thing). -Lommer | talk 01:28, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
I agree that SFU or UBC would be good locations. Simon Fraser University has a downtown campus and conference centre. The Canadian Centre for Publishing (or something to that effect) runs out of SFU Harbour Centre, so there might be an opportunity to tap into their resources. SFU Harbour Centre & the graduate business centre are also close to Skytrain and buses. Buses go to the main campus (dorms) as well as out to UBC or various hostels. Holding the conference at a downtown location would probably be best, since UBC and SFU's main campuses are a long haul for most people. By holding the conference downtown, you can attract more non-students, working adults, and students who attend other institutions. BTW, I would be interested in helping with the conference, but I have a young baby and am not very good at getting out to business meetings just now. --Westendgirl 03:01, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimania 2006

In the course of informal discussions at Wikimania in Frankfurt the possibility of having Wikimania 2006 in Vancouver was raised. What makes Canada desirable for such a meeting is the capacity to draw delegates from the United States. For many overseas delegates, however, U.S. visa requirements make that country less attractive. All else being equal, Europeans see Vancouver as a more interesting Canadian city to visit than Toronto, the only other Canadian city to receive significant consideration.

Preliminary bids from various cities need to be made by Sept. 30, 2005. A short list will be drawn from those bids. Is there enough interest and energy to put together such a conference in Vancouver for August 2006? The people in Frankfurt put on a tremendous gathering, with a core organizational group of about a dozen people. Some 400 people attended from 52 different countries.

I expect that a North American Wikimania could be a little smaller, but we would still need a suitable facility. It would be good to know that such a facility is available for a conference; the type of youth hostel facility that was used in Frankfurt does not exist in North America. What would be the cost of hosting such a conference at UBC?

I'm looking for interest and commitment. To that end I am proposing a Vancouver meetup for Saturday, Sept. 24. If someone has a reasonably accesible place for such a meeting please let me know. (I live in Richmond, but something in the city of Vancouver would be more appropriate.)

I am spammiong this to all Vancouver area Wikipedians that I can find. Please reply to my talk page. Eclecticology 21:50:16, 2005-09-03 (UTC)

Hello. Not many people are aware of Wikipedia (or other Wiki projects) in Vancouver area compared to Frankfurt, host for 2005 WM. For example, in my school, less than 50 people are aware of Wikipedia, and people who edit are even less so. So, that poses a small problem. If the Sept 24 meetup is held in either North Vancouver or Vancouver (or anywhere easily accesible by bus from West Vancouver), I would be welcomed to participate. I also have a friend who would also be delighted to participate.
According to www.ubcconferences.com, "Vancouver Conference Coordinator to assist" will be assigned to help with various organizing. (Please see this page for details.) Cost won't be too much for the renting, but the individual housing, hotel costs might be a problem for the participants staying in Vancouver. Anyway, I would be interested in participating in the events as long as I am able to participate. As a (secondary school) student, it is harder for me to attend on the weekdays. I added Vancouver into the Wikimania 2006/Canadian bid. I would also suggest posting something at Canadian wikipedians' notice board like someone did for Toronto's bid. How many are you expecting at the Sept 24 meetup?
Many info about the UBC renting, accommodations could be found here ubcconferences.com.
WB 00:24, September 4, 2005 (UTC)
      • UBC also has its satellite campus at Robson Square although it has limited space. There's also the Vancouver Convention Centre... --Poor Yorick
  • Offer of Help From Matthew Laird, member of VLUG (email: matt[AT]luther[DOT]ca) sent to the mailing list:

I'd be willing to give a hand next year, but my vote is for SFU. I love UBC, it was my school, but I work at SFU now and am in a position to give you a significant hand up there. As a sysadmin up there, I can talk to the higher ups about ensuring network facilities are available. Besides, I've been told UBC is overpriced for conferences. :)
As for the conference itself, one person you should definitely get in touch with is Tim Bray ('Father of XML') who actually lives in Vancouver. If Vancouver gets the nod I'll be glad to chat to him for you guys as that use used to be my boss and is still a client of my private company.
Anyhow, good luck on the bid.

--Simon.Pole 03:25, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

I would love to go, but I have serious doubts that my parents would even remotely consider allowing me to attend. Sorry. =( [[User:Premeditated Chaos|User:Premeditated Chaos/Sig]] 07:17, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

  • Hopefully I can convince them at some time in the future. I'd really love to meet all my fellow contributors...probably not anytime soon, sadly. Ah well. Next time. [[User:Premeditated Chaos|User:Premeditated Chaos/Sig]] 05:46, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Following up on the message Eclect. left on my talk page...SFU probably has facilities available for your September meeting, but you'd have to pay. Might be better to see how many people are likely to show up, then head to a coffee shop or something like that. I'm not able to attend, as my son is at the stage where he still wants to eat a lot but is also unhappy with sitting on my lap when he could be crawling around. :) --Westendgirl 07:24, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

    • Cf. I meant find out how many are likely to show up ahead of time, then plan to meet at a coffee shop, assuming small numbers. --Westendgirl 07:56, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

How about a separate page for this? visit this page. And, how's the location spotting going?

[edit] Wikimania 2006 Vancouver bid (2)

Wikimania 2006 Vancouver bid is located at this page. -- WB 02:43, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

It is premature to have this as a separate page until there is an actual decision to make a bid. If the Sept. 24 meeting results in a decision to actually make a bid, a separate page will certainly be needed. If the bid is successful it will all move to a separate wiki and mailing list.
As to "location spotting", I can have the Sept. 24 meeting in a downtown McDonals's if no-one comes up with a better place. If you are referring to the potential conference site UBC is certainly a possibility, but just giving me a list of web links where I might inquire is not enough. A successful organizing committee must include people who are capable of sound judgement and initiative. Thus, if someone wants to offer UBC I would expect that that person will have done enough basic research to get a price quote for what is needed. If you are ready to do that I can easily provide parameters for that quote.
An international conference for up to 400 people is a significant undertaking. If a reliable core of workers is not found at a very early stage the conference ain't gonna happen in Vancouver. Eclecticology 05:01:07, 2005-09-06 (UTC)
I wonder how many people would be necessary to fulfill the requirements for the setup. I thought a separate page would be necessary because your talk page was already a bit crowded, and a second page would be useful whether or not the thing would be happening or not. I think an adult would be a bit more appropriate for calling UBC or SFU or any other possible meeting place. As for the meeting in McD's, I will forward this message and make sure at least two more people are coming (including me). Are there more than 10 people coming? It would be nice, but this project is seriously understaffed - as of now at least. -- WB 00:20, September 7, 2005 (UTC)
An international conference for up to 400 people is a significant undertaking. If a reliable core of workers is not found at a very early stage the conference ain't gonna happen in Vancouver. Eclecticology 05:01:07, 2005-09-06 (UTC)

I apologize if I came down a little hard in my previous message. You are right, it should be an adult that approches the universities. I realized that after the message was sent.

To pull this off will likely need 8 to 12 core Vancuver area people to make sure that all the facilities are in place that people need. In the last week before the conference we can also probably get help from the Seattle people, and from a few other key people from around the world.

I'm glad that you can bring a couple friends. It's hard to gueass how many people will show up on the 24th. So far I have only had direct responses from 6 people, 2 of whom don't think that they can come. Eclecticology 04:58:30, 2005-09-07 (UTC)

Sorry for the late reply. I just want to ask "which McDonald's?" To my knowledge, there are more than one. And maybe a Google Map link would be helpful for everyone else. -- WB 21:02, September 11, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimania 2006

It definitely would be sweet to have that come to Canada... Feel free to spam my talk page with notes/updates. I will check back... Jeffrey 23:29, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wiktionary sysop

Sure delete away, I signed up to do it in the early stages and it now appears to be doing OK on its own :) Sjc 13:45, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimania (again)

Any developments? Sorry to tell you this, but I might not come. So please don't be surprised when "WB" doesn't show up. -- WB 01:22, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] IBM

You probably know this already, but did you know that your edit was recorded when IBM was doing their research on Wikipedia vandalism? I couldn't but notice your unique user name. See here. -- WB 05:03, 21 September 2005 (UTC)


[edit] User Categorization

You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Canada page as living in or being associated with Canada. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in British Columbia for instructions. --Doviende 19:28, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimania 2006

Thanks for your efforts in this. Simon Pole was the only other person besides me to show up on September 24th call-up, so there does not appear to be enough manpower available to organize Wikimania 2006 in Vancouver. Eclecticology 18:29, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Sorry I could not come. I had a rather unexpected project for school. It's too bad that Vancouver cannot be "the One" next year. Perhaps with more popularity in British Columbia later might open an another possibility. Thanks, -- WB 00:52, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
Sorry to hear that. As we discussed before, I've got my hands full with a little on. I suspect *now* is the time to start planning for 2007. --Westendgirl 06:06, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Your vandalism

I do not appreciate your activities as a common vandal at Open Season (2006 movie). Eclecticology 23:29, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Please don't make baseless accusations. --fvw* 23:33, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
There's nothing baseless about it. It's a fact that he deleted the article without good reason. Eclecticology 23:39, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
It was deleted as a recreation of a previously AfDed article, which is perfectly legitimate. --fvw* 23:41, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
Not at all. It was posted to Wiktionary where it does not belong since it is encyclopedic. A few things were added, it was restructured from what was put on Wiktionary, and an IMDB link was added. It's a whole new article which should be discussed before being deleted. Eclecticology 23:51, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
You're right that it doesn't belong at wiktionary, however it isn't wanted here either. If you think things have changed enough for an article to be appropriate, try WP:VfU. --fvw* 23:54, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Please see CSD G4. It was not vandalism, and I do not appreciate the name-calling. I deleted that article according to policy. I'll assume you didn't see my warning to not recreate the article again. Do so again and you will be temporarily blocked from editing. android79 00:08, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Meetup?

Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle3. Interested? -- Jmabel | Talk 23:33, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] In the interests of fairness...

Hey Eclecticology, I'm glad to see your comments over at the Cote d'Ivoire debates. I did want to ask you, though, to take it a little easier on them--I've been working hard to get Jtdirl to tone down his/her rhetoric (though sadly making little progress) and I'd hate to see the oppose side fall back on things like "herd ignorance" too... remember, a little Wikiquette can go a long way! Cheers, --Dvyost 07:51, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Don't worry, I'm with you on this issue--though I'm not sure Jtdirl's comments come down to racism so much as a rather overzealous interpretation of the MoS. I'm just hoping everybody over there calms down a notch or two; I hate to see things get this heated, is all. Anyway, sorry if my own comment was rude/brusque/or anything. =) See you around! --Dvyost 18:47, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] People on Danish stamps

Hi!

On List of people on stamps of Denmark, you mention Martinus Willem Ferslew. Is this a typo for Martinus William Ferslew, or vice versa (or are both forms used)? What is your source for the Dutch-spelled name? --Palnatoke 08:31, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Meetup

Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle3 could sure use your comments on location: so far we have no clear consensus. -- Jmabel | Talk 00:04, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] West Virginia

Hey Eclecticology! I nominated the West Virginia main article as a candidate for US Collaboration of the Week...it's in dire need of help and if it is chosen as a US Collaboration of the Week, it'll definitely be brought up to par with other U.S. state articles. Thanks! --Caponer 17:52, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Military history: Coordinator elections

WikiProject Military history The Military history WikiProject is currently holding elections for project coordinators. Any member of the project may nominate themselves and all are encouraged to vote here.
The elections will run until February 5.

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[edit] Please check your WP:NA entry

Greetings, editor! Your name appears on Wikipedia:List of non-admins with high edit counts. If you have not done so lately, please take a look at that page and check your listing to be sure that following the particulars are correct:

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[edit] Wikimedia Canada

Hi there! I'd like to invite you to explore Wikimedia Canada, and create a list of people interested in forming a local chapter for our nation. We'd also like to encourage everyone to suggest projects for our national chapter to participate in. Hope to see you there! -- user:zanimum

[edit] Might want to check out...

Talk:Jordanhill railway station/Commemoration -- user:zanimum

[edit] wikipedia.ca domain

Hi. http://www.wikipedia.ca has been "under construction" for a while now. Why not point wikipedia.ca and en.wikipedia.ca as 302 Moved to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page for now, to give Canadians new to Wikipedia a fast way to get to en without having to remember to type the en. at the beginning? Cheers, --unforgettableid | talk to me 16:18, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GWU

Hello, I'm trying (again) to get The George Washington University moved to George Washington University. Since you weighed in on this when it came up last year, I thought you might like to weigh in again. john k 23:31, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mickey Slim

Heya. Just giving you a heads up about Mickey Slim. ॐ Metta Bubble puff 13:07, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter, Issue I

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
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Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Military history WikiProject's newsletter! We hope that this new format will help members—especially those who may be unable to keep up with some of the rapid developments that tend to occur—find new groups and programs within the project that they may wish to participate in.

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[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue II

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[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue III - May 2006

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[edit] Sure about the adminship thing?

I'd be glad to nominate you for adminship - even as busy as you are at Wiktionary, I see you working here and imagine that you would find the tools useful... BD2412 T 15:54, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Meetup

Looks like Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle4 will be happening September 9, 2006. - Jmabel | Talk 01:47, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] September 24,2006?

Hey, I was just poking around usertalk pages when I saw that you were trying to organise some kind of wiki-meetup on the 24th. Could you give me more details? (I'm living at UBC and would be delighted to help organize something!) Ardent†alk∈ 00:27, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Aww shucks, I actually got excited there. I guess I was confused by all the talk of 'a Wikimania 2006 possibly in Vancouver'. Admittedly I was skim reading... Oh well.
Ardent†alk∈ 01:34, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
Well, for a shot at 2009 anyway, I'd be willing to help put some meaning into a Vancouver bid (which I think would be absolutely excellent considering most of the infrastructure upgrades for the olympics will be completed by then), including looking into hosting options at UBC. I bet with a little bit of pull and some officiality I could convince one of the residences to cooperate with us =)
Ardent†alk∈ 05:20, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Forensic philately"

Possibly just a coinage of Herst - I have a reprint of his book, and was going to get around to writing up the case one of these days, but I don't see any other of my references using the term. Stan 14:57, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

In fact he doesn't define the term - the book is really just reprints of the contemporary articles and court transcripts. I think I put the book title and experts' present-day use of forensic equipment for expertization together in my head, and assumed it was an actual field when it's not. The relevant material is probably best put in articles about expertization and forgeries. Stan 18:03, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Illegal stamps

The whole subject of illegal and bogus stamps has gotten to be pretty hot these days - Linn's seems to have an article on it about once a month, so lots of source material to work from. Article could be better structured I think, but the concept is right. Stan 19:20, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Meetup notes

Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle4. Edits welcome.

& this is the reminder on the Northwest Native languages thing. - Jmabel | Talk 08:39, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Santa Claus, Indiana

When you have a moment, could you please WP:CITE the references you used to begin the Santa Claus, Indiana article? I really enjoyed it by the way.  :) Can't sleep, clown will eat me 06:45, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] British post office in Bangkok

I am traveling right now. So it's one week before I can get back to my reference books. I got the "B" stamp used in nearby country information from Anatchai Rattakul's book. He won international exhibition on that set. I will verify with the late Prakaiphet's book. He won large gold medal or grand champion (not sure). I don't think it's forgery. Experts often compare with Prakaiphet's sample to decide whether a stamp is real or fake. -- Lerdsuwa 10:15, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Done additing the reference and putting back the "B" stamp used elsewhere claim. -- Lerdsuwa 12:12, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
I have put the photo at [6]. -- Lerdsuwa 13:55, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
The book only shows the front of the cover. So I have no idea what's on the other side. But looking in the book, I can find 2 covers, 1 postal card, and a few postage stamps with double ring Singapore handstamp on them. Here from the auction site http://www.bennettstamps.com/asia/sale8/chap0036.htm you can see the photo of Lot 2174 for example (actually the photo is for Lot 2175). Lot 2158 photo looks like another example. -- Lerdsuwa 14:42, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Treaties

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[edit] Treaty of Kiakhta

I just saw that you have moved this page to Treaty of Kyakhta. It is always a good idea to suggest a move on the talk page before you make a move so other editors can respond. Kiakhta may very well be an old-fashioned spelling of Kyakhta, but this treaty is generally known as "Treaty of Kiakhta" and most other treaties that China concluded with other countries are known under the old names, e.g. Treaty of Wanghia and Treaty of Whampoa.--Niohe 19:28, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm not going to challenge the page move for the time being, but I don't think we should dismiss historical spellings as "obsolete" out of hand. If you read any work on Sino-Russian relations, you would find the treaty being called Treaty of Kiakhta and in Wikipedia we usually stick to the most common name, not necessarily the most ortographically "correct" name.--Niohe 00:17, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Jimmy Wales in Portland

Jimmy Wales will be speaking at Reed College in Portland, OR this Monday, April 2, at 7 pm in the Vollum lecture hall. The lecture is titled "Wikia Search and the Future of the Internet". The event is open to the public, and it would be great to see you there. I don't know your circumstances this time around, but since you made it to the Portland meetup, I thought I'd at least let you know. Please forward this message to anyone you know who may be interested. :-) Dmcdevit·t 08:18, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] RfA

Hello,

While I appreciate your vote, I'm afraid you're too late - the RfA has already closed.

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