User talk:Edward Tremel

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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!

Hello Edward Tremel, and and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Thanks for dropping us a note at Wikipedia:New user log. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, add a question to the Village pump, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. (A note on process: Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date.)

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome!     —ERcheck @ 00:20, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] American Beech, American Hornbeam, etc

Hi Edward - nice work! On American Beech, you'd added "The tree is monoecious, meaning that a single tree can self-pollinate to produce fruit"; this is not wholly true - all that monoecious means is that flowers of both sexes are produced on the same tree. It doesn't mean it can self-pollinate; like most plants with monoecious or perfect flowers, it has mechanisms to prevent self-pollination; pollination will only be successful with cross-pollination between two different plants, so as to prevent inbreeding. On American Hornbeam, can you verify from Rolls-Royce that they use it for the door panels? - it seems a little improbable that a UK-made car would use American rather than European Hornbeam. One last suggestion (re Manitoba Maple), for relatively short articles (like most species pages), it is best to stick to 3 or fewer headers, otherwise the page gets to look header-heavy and ugly (I find a useful guide is to average about 20 lines of text per header) - MPF 23:35, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about the inaccuracy - guess I don't know as much about botany as I thought I did. Regarding the headers, it seemed to me like it was a bad idea to have a second-level (===) header on a page without a first-level (==) header above it - sort of like having a Part Two without a Part One. That's why I changed the levels of the headers, at least (though I didn't have a very good reason for dividing the article into many small sections and you're quite right about that one); is there some Wikipedia guideline that says it's actually better to use lower-level headers without higher-level ones to contain them? Edward Tremel 10:26, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] School IP blocking

Hi, thanks for your cherry articles! So, I noticed your entry at Wikipedia:New user log. I'm pretty sure that school IP addresses aren't supposed to be blocked indefinitely. Obviously I don't know the details of the situation, but if you could place {{unblock}} on the IP talk page, you'd be doing your classmates a favor. Cheers, Melchoir 12:09, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I'm guessing it's doing Wikipedia a favor to keep the school's IP address blocked as this place (my school) is so full of boneheads that Wikipedia would probably be vandalized up the wazoo the minute school computers were allowed to edit it. If you look at the talk page for my school's shared IP, it's been blocked repeatedly for charges of vandalism. Unfortunately, what I initially said in the new user log actually wasn't true - even when I log in to my account (which has no warnings or anything), I still can't edit from a school computer because the IP is blocked. If an IP address is blocked, why can't you get around it by logging into an un-blocked account, since you're clearly a different person than the person with that IP? (I'll also post this question in the appropriate question board, but I thought I'd say it here in case you checked back.) Edward Tremel 16:42, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyvio?

I recently created an article on Dionýz Ilkovic, only to return a few days later and find it deleted. Looking around, the only option I seemed to have for finding out why was to look up the article in the Deletion Log. Doing this, however, returned only a single line indicating that someone called Jaranda had deleted it, and the word "copyvio" in parentheses. No further information was available. Now, since I'm not clueless, I'm guessing that "copyvio" means my article was deleted because Jaranda thought it violated a copyright, and I admit some of the material on that page was directly copied from a web page that is the first result if you Google Dionýz Ilkovic. However, I only did that (directly copied) after looking extensively through Wikipedia's policy pages and finding nothing regarding whether you should assume by default that all text is copyrighted, and looking on the site I copied from and finding no copyright notice anywhere. So I assumed, lacking any Wikipedia policy, that it was okay to copy text that didn't say it was copyrighted. But apparently it's not. Or am I misunderstanding the meaning of "copyvio"? Regardless, it would help if the Wikipedia policy said somewhere what to assume if you find some text on a webpage that doesn't appear to have a copyright anywhere on it. -- Edward Tremel 18:07, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

All work, whether they be paintings or text on websites, are protected by copyright unless the author explicitly releases those rights. In some jurisdictions, even this is not possible; so it is safe to assume that all work is copyrighted and unavailable for reuse unless the author is contacted or a notice declaring that the work is in the public domain/published under a free license in provided along with the work. As for clarifying the policy pages, I think that's a good idea - you might like to post a suggestion on the talk page of the relevant policy page, asking other editors their input. Cheers, Tangotango 18:22, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] help

check out WP:COPYVIO. If this does not help you put the helpme tag directly above your question and I or someone else will return. —— Eagle (ask me for help) 18:23, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] helpme

Hello, you used the {{helpme}} tag. How may I help you? When you've asked your question, please put the tag back so we know to check back. Alternatively, you can join the Wikipedia Bootcamp IRC channel to get real-time help. (Use the web-based client to get instant access.) —— Eagle (ask me for help) 18:10, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Whoops, I guess I didn't know how the helpme tag worked. I put it on this page after I'd already asked the question I wanted answered: the section titled "Copyvio?" directly above this. So it looks like next time I should put the tag on, wait for this message, then ask the question and put it back on. --Edward Tremel 18:16, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
Close, but no cigar :) Easiest way is to put the helpme tag right above your question. —— Eagle (ask me for help) 18:19, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
Oh. I thought you put it at the top of the page. Like I said, this is the first time I've used this. --Edward Tremel 18:22, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
no problem :) —— Eagle (ask me for help) 18:23, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bot-assisted announcements

Hi Edward! I think you might be interested in

User:AlexNewArtBot/PlantsSearchResult
Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/New articles

Colchicum 23:38, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] HEY! Eddie ol' Pal!

You wouldn't happen to know what 1/29's Apush Homework was would you?

Um, hello to you too. Who are you anyway? On Wikipedia, it's customary to Sign your comments on talk pages. I can only guess that you must be someone else from APUSH, but I would wonder why you (or at least someone else using your IP address) edited my user page to say "WOW I am totally NOT the Biggest Dork who ever lived." Why would I feel inclined to help you after you do something like that? And anyway, why do you need to know the APUSH homework from over a month ago? I'm not going to answer your question, because I am rather disinclined to trust a person who puts insults on my user page and tries to remain anonymous when posting an odd question on my talk page. —Edward Tremel 10:48, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Dear Edward, that was Tyler Vosgerchian :) Now you can rage against the machine. Primeromundo 22:28, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
And is "Primeromundo" Tyler Vosgerchian's real account? Or is this someone else entirely who just happens to know what Tyler does on his computer? —Edward Tremel 00:07, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
This is not Tyler, but I do know that that was Tyler, not because I was there when he typed it but for other, undisclosed, possibly scrumptious reasons. Primeromundo 01:05, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
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