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[edit] Thank you for your help on fr.

We finally decided to blank these pages, when we find it. Lisaël 05:10, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank You

Thank you for the advice on the tables. They look nice and summarise information, but wasn't sure whether a fictional item should be treated like a real one. smurrayinchester(User), (Talk) 10:54, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "I hope to shout!"

I had to look that one up =) Aussie slang is a little different... jnothman talk 10:42, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, don't you worry, we have some good stories about Americans: My father in New York in December told an acquaintance that it was summer in Sydney, to the response "Oh, so which month is it there, now?" =) And no, I don't have an accent. :P jnothman talk 00:25, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: CSS

Well, admittedly I didn't test what I suggested you do here, but now that I do, it does work fine for me. I don't see any problems in your monobook.css, but I can't edit it (it's protected for only you and admins, to my knowledge: which means I may be able to edit it on Sunday night =P). One thing you might need to do is refresh your browser's cache of the page by going to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Halcatalyst/monobook.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css and pressing refresh. Also, note that this CSS only works on talk pages and not, say, on the Help desk. It also only works when : is used to reply and not *. jnothman talk 02:27, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] CAoW

Since you are listed as a Roman Catholic, I figured I'd send you this. Wikipedia:Catholic Alliance of wikipedia has been nominated for Deletion. Please vote and/or tell other people to vote to keep this organization on wikipedia. --Shanedidona 02:57, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pope Innocent III

Hi, thanks for your work on this article. But I wonder why you reverted "Thereafter Otto lost all influence and died on May 19, 1218, leaving Frederick II the undisputed king." to "...emperor." Frederick II didn't become emperor until November 22, 1220 (see Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor). --Chl 00:10, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Port arms"

Thanks for your very informative answer to this question! --Lph 14:47, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Project

Hi, my name is Federico (alias Pain) and I am creating a section for nominating th best user page, I was wondering if you were interested in joining the project.

The project has just started, and we need help to spread the word and ameliorate it.

Wikipedia:Votes_for_best_User_page

Best regards, Federico Pistono ✆ ✍ 14:32, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you for cleanup.

Thanks for the thorough scrubbing of the Censorware page. It is more than I could have hoped for when I tagged it with the copyedit template. JonHarder 15:20, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Text of Turned (and Reference Desk writ large)

I respond here to your query apropos of the provenance of my finding Turned in text form, inasmuch as one's replies on the Reference Desk are often lost amongst the many questions there posed and debates there begun. In any case, though I regret to write it, in view of your having searched in vain for so long, I found our quarry simply by Googling "Charlotte Perkins Gilman 'Turned'"; the teacher's guide you found was likely of more use to the poster, though, I imagine. More broadly, I write to commend you for sundry responses you have authored at the Reference Desk; given that the Reference Desk is surely the best place for Wikipedians to interact with others not yet having partaken of the project, it is especially to your credit that your work there toward the edification of others is provided so cordially. I imagine that if one's only contact with Wikipedia is at the Reference Desk, in the form of posting, and then regarding replies to, a question, where he/she has had you for an interlocutor, he/she necessarily leaves Wikipedia with a positive impression of the project and with a greater likelihood of return, to the betterment of the encyclopedia. The fact of your answering so many questions so well would merit thanks enough, but the fashion in which you write must engender extra recognition; so eloquent is your prose as well to delight the heart of a fellow grammarian. Joe 19:53, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] faith in or faith of?

Saving this discussion of 2006-02-22: Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Language#faith_in_or_faith_of.3F. --Halcatalyst 01:21, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] conscious sleep

Saving this discussion of 2006-02-27: Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Science#conscious_sleep. --Halcatalyst 22:12, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The one-fold way

Buddhism? Fugeddaboudit. Achieve enlightenmnet® wid Wikipediduh. --Halcatalyst 15:27, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dendurent

Bonjour. This is in reply to your message on the French Bistro today. Are you aware of the existence of this web page? It says, among other things:

The earliest mention of Dendurent family comes from the early eighteenth century, from the detailed marriage records kept in the parish churches. The present spelling of the name came from the nasaled "a" that sounds so strange to English ears. Thus, the original spelling was undoubtedly Dandurand or Dandurant. The name meant De Andirand--a person from the region of Lot-et-Garonne in southern France. The Canada parish records demonstrate the presence of only one Dandurand, from whom presumably all Canadian and American Dandurants and Dendurents are descended.
- Mu 12:07, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Well, I'm not too suprised to hear there are problems with the explanations offered. I don't know whether any of the following can be of help: (1) Jean Tosti in his Dictionnaire des noms de famille has this to say: Dandurand: Le nom est surtout porté dans l'Aveyron et le Cantal. On le rencontre en Gascogne sous la forme Danduran. Voir Andurand [1]. Andurand: C'est dans l'Aveyron que le nom est le plus répandu (également 47, 82). Variantes : Anduran, Andurant, Enduran. On peut certes y voir le surnom d'un homme endurant, patient, mais une autre solution est envisageable : le nom Durand, précédé de la particule occitane "en" (marquant en général un degré élevé dans la hiérarchie sociale). Dernière possibilité : un éventuel nom de baptême médiéval. Les noms Danduran, Dandurand désignent pour leur part le fils d'Anduran(d), ou encore celui qu'on appelait "dam Durand" ("dam", du latin "dominus", à rapprocher de l'espagnol "don") [2]. (2) With the spelling Dandurand, the name was a fairly common one in France at the turn of the last century. This map shows where: [3]. (3) One of the main genealogy sites in France has many family trees with the name Dandurand [4] and a few others with the name Dandurant [5] (many of which are in the USA or Canada). Contributors to this site usually have an email address at which they can be contacted if anything exciting turns up. As for myself, I wouldn't call myself a genealogist, but I have in the past done some research in the field. So, bonne chance! - Mu 20:14, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merci beaucoup!

Dear Halcatalyst:

You have the honor of being the 19th person to respond to my survey!

Thank you for your participation. Your responses to the survey are much appreciated!

The final essay should be posted on my user page no later than March 27. Stay tuned!!!

Shuo Xiang 01:04, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reference desk (Orson Welles)

I readily concede that my note was likely untoward, but I made it with the knowledge that, inasmuch as she left her e-mail address (to which I sent the IMDB link) and seemed not to realize that the answer to her query would be posted at the desk site, the poster likely wouldn't return to see my remark. In any case, I think I probably should have said that, while surely researching at an encyclopedia is an excellent place to start, asking a question at the Reference Desk perhaps isn't; I would hope, for example, that one who does doctoral work apropos of Orson Welles would be familiar with IMBD and associated film websites. Though one's using Wikipedia for research, even in pursuit of a PhD, seems certainly fine, I would suggest that the Reference Desk, a resource not representing a learned consensus of views and an appropriate distillation of sources, as perhaps describes Wikipedia qua encyclopedia proper, is perhaps more akin to asking the Welles question on a film e-mail list or some similarly-constructed discussion group; such research doesn't inspire confidence in the general abilities of the questioner. OTOH, as you seem quite properly to suggest, it seems that the questioner didn't pose her query in hopes of receiving specific information that previously she did not have, but, instead, in hopes of receiving information as to where she might find the sources in which to find that specific information; in this way, she (I continue to use the feminine pronoun here, having assumed, perhaps erroneously, that the questioner's first name was feminine) would be using the Reference Desk in the same way one might use a reference desk or computer database at a library, which usage surely is fine. In sum, I think you properly lead me to rethink, a bit, my (throwaway) comment as to the propriety of the questioner's asking her question at Wikipedia, and I will, I think, edit my response accordingly. Cordially, Joe 02:16, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shortcut program

Regarding the computer program we were discussing on the Science reference desk, I'll do that for you soon, but I don't know if I'll be able to do it tonight. Hopefully you can wait. :) Oh, and by the way, when I write it, do you want me to make it start up each time Windows starts up? Just a convenience thing. -- Daverocks (talk) 06:54, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Hehe, I know a tiny, tiny bit of C... I'm not using that. I know a decent amount of batch too, it's great, the code is just there and you just run the code. Anyway, I was planning to make it in AutoIt (website). I know, probably sounds n00bish and stupid, but it's actually a good scripting language that allows the coder to do many, many things, one of which includes binding keys to functions. I think the AutoIt compiler was written in C++. Anyway, it's great. Hopefully I'll have written the program soon; just keep reminding me ;) -- Daverocks (talk) 23:16, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] It's here!!!

Dear Halcatalyst

And it's here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Announcing my CS 492 term-end paper: On Wikipedia — the Technology, the People, the Unfinished Work. Image:Wikipedia.pdf

Thank you for all the kind help you have lent me during the paper-writing process!!!

Long live Wikipedia!!!

Shuo Xiang 22:20, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia_talk:Censorship

A watered-down version of the proposed policy against censorship is now open for voting. Will you kindly review the policy and make your opinions known? Thank you very much. Loom91 12:58, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Keystroke program

Hey, remember me? I offered to make you a keystroke program earlier (to disable unused shortcuts like Ctrl-B). I just wanted to say I'm really sorry for not having done it, I've had a *lot* of schoolwork recently and stuff... do you still want it? If yes, I'll try to get started on it. -- Daverocks (talk) 07:58, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

And it's done! You can download it here. It's a .exe of course, and although I would personally never run random exes from strangers, it's kind of your only option if you want to run a program which does anything. You can scan it with an anti-virus program but it'll be clean. Some notes on it... it stops Ctrl-anything and Alt-anything from working, except Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-X and Ctrl-A. When it's running, you'll see an icon looking like an A in a dark blue circle in the taskbar. You can right-click and exit the program from there if you want. Also, a known issue, Ctrl-Shift-letter may work. In some programs where it accepts the capital of a letter, that might happen. I couldn't find a way to disable Ctrl-Shift without disabling Shift (disabling shift would stop you from typing capital letters, which you probably wouldn't want). But most programs I know only recognise the lower-case Ctrl. Anyway, tell me how it performs. You'll need to run the program again every time you restart your computer or log off and log on. If you find running the program manually every startup tedious, I can change that in a later version. Let me know once you've got the program and are using it. -- Daverocks (talk) 03:57, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the feedback. If there's any other features you want in it, just ask. -- Daverocks (talk) 15:03, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE: help desk

There's now a reply. Hope this helps in some way.

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[edit] Intermec

I believe the corporate PR job was deleted, and I restarted the article. Please help us improve it! Jehochman (Talk/Contrib) 16:55, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

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