User talk:Jarfingle

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Archives Archive 1: September 2005 – September 2006

Contents 1 thank you 2 leave alone 3 stop deleting 4 Alisa Valdes 5 Please stop deleting info 6 Question on Adventure Racing Edits 7 Deleting Information 8 KHS 9 Sitka 10 Randy Gordon 11 Castro Valley High School 12 Castro Valley High School Response 13 Thanks... 14 Diana Krall 15 Barrow page MySpace link 16 Here ya go... 17 Mt. Edgecumbe High School 18 Stop being the garbage man 19 Horizon Air Livery 20 What is wrong with the airband category? 21 The Office

[edit] thank you

thank you i appreciate that

[edit] leave alone

well since u have pointed out things wrong with our site i only have one thing to ask you this is a project for school and i am the only one done with it so far and the other areas are changing so there will be no repetition of things in this site. so i ask you please leave the history section alone untill after the day of March 17, 2007 because after that i do not care what u edit on the site, if you could please do that it wold be much appreciated thank you.

[edit] stop deleting

ERHS is a school based site and since u do not go to our school please stop editing things thank you

[edit] Alisa Valdes

Alisa Valdes is a notable alumni from the graduating class of 1992. She is a New York Times bestselling novelist. When conducting an online search, use the name Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.35.45.17 (talk • contribs) 19:17, September 26, 2006.

[edit] Please stop deleting info

The Coast Guard web site is a public domain web site with encyclopedic information. Please do not remove information from that site from Lighthouse pages. --- Skapur 19:10, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

The information from the coast guard site was formatted and in context. It was not wikified. The proper etiquette in these conditions is to wikify the text, not to delete it! --- Skapur 11:24, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question on Adventure Racing Edits

I noticed that in one of your edits you removed all external links to the list of adventure races in the adventure racing article. I would be interested in knowing your thoughts on the edit. I believe the edit renders the section entirely useless, which is not to say I disagree the edit; perhaps deleting the entire section is an appropriate action. I have generally believed that having a list of races has value to the reader who may be looking for a race in which to participate, but would be interested in hearing your views.

John Turner 05:30, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deleting Information

Stop deleting information/editing from the Ketchikan High School page. I think it should be up to US, (people that live in ketchikan) what goes on the site and what doesn't.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 206.223.205.84 (talk • contribs) 15:11, November 22, 2006.

[edit] KHS

In reguards once again to the KHS article. I wasn't try to do self promotion by the fact that we don't really want anyone from out of Ketchikan to post on the site, and the external link was NOT in my part of the article, another member of KU added the external link as i remember, and also, it says in the article it is/was originally a part of KHS. It is 100% non-profit and like I said, my portion of the writings in it included no link. But in your best interests to Sitka, which is totally connected with Ketchikan, I will not re-post my ONE paragraph on a website of millions of paragraphs. Sorry if i sound ticked off it's just everytime I submit to wikipedia it's like i'm breaking a rule or two...

Rowan187 08:41, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sitka

I didnt move it from Sitka, I moved it from Sitka City and Burough, Alaska. Please review the history before leaving condescending unsigned comments on other people's talk pages. EdwinHJ | Talk 03:32, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Randy Gordon

How is he notable as a congressional candidate? He never ran for office. He dropped out before the primary and wasn't even on the ballot. Montco 06:38, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Castro Valley High School

Please stop doing your own little clean-up on this article, it is ineffective, and ruins the support of other users. 75.31.192.62 23:21, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

On the girl's basketbal controversy, I'll annotate my thoughts below:

[edit] Castro Valley High School Response

===Girl's Basketball Controversy=== (the "basketball" and "controversy" should be decapitalized) '(I agree with this)

Due to complaints from parents about the coaching style of girls varsity basketball coach Nancy Nibarger (this is not a sentence) (also agree, don't know how that got there). According to the San Francisco Chronicle (should be italicized) (yes to that too), these parents complaints and accusations (what accusations and complaints? They are not specified and a link was not provided to back any specifications even if such specifics were provided) (we can add that) against the coach have never been found to have any merit, yet the school agreed to allow a six-person panel choose the team instead of the coach ("choose the team instead of the coach" is, as this reader is concerned, a non sequitur. It makes no sense) (i dont see what u mean here, it seems to make sense if u add a to in the middle of six person panel and choose). On November 20, 2006, the San Francisco Chronicle (italics again) reported that none of the daughters of the complaining parents made the cut (relevance?) (it shows that the parents complaints were false, and that the coaches decisions about who made the team were correct).

In all this appears to be a grammatically shoddy and unspecific blurb that, well, makes no sense. (Basically, i will make some edits that will clear things up)

I removed this sentence, "Students have reported problems traveling through the school because of heavy contsruction," becuase it's relatively irrelevant and understood (to me at least). Generally, when any structure, institution, or building undergoes construction travel may become difficult. It strikes me as a relatively silly thing to waste time talking about in an encyclopedia as a separate paragraph (maybe merge it with another sentence?).

^^^^No, this is where I can't agree. This is in current issues and is quite a problem at the school, and needs to be there.

I changed "mid 50s" to "mid '50s" because the apostrophe denotes that the word (or number, in this case) in question is being appreviated. Specifically, from 1950s to '50s. (ok)

"Crime has gone up significantly because of interdistrict transfers." I removed the sentence because, based on the quality of previous content, I doubted its veracity. Also for something as inflammatory as this, it is not cited, which it needs to be. (This is a true statement, but it is put in a bad way. I will edit it to say "Interdistrict students from other cities have caused problems involving crowding and crime at the school" Dont think it needs to be cited, i dont think u can find anything that specific on the school on the web.) Annotated comments below:

"Craig Nieves, football coach and Physical Education teacher, has recently resigned as head football coach (relevance? Notability? Coaches resign all the time in high schools and unless this guy is notable for holding some incredible winning records or for some other reason I see no reason why this should be bothered to be included in Wikipedia). In fact, all football coaches have resigned (what is this supposed to mean? Clarity?) (Well it is a tie-in with the girls basketball controversy, and also a notable part of castro valley's football team. It is pretty notable. The second part about all of them resigning is also true. Every squad's coach resigned and this is putting the school in a hole in terms of football.)

The football stadium is expected to be completed in time for the 2007 season, but this is an optimistic estimate considering past events that have delayed construction." (I moved this sentence up a few paragraphs into the "Construction" section, where it seemed to be much better suited. Also, this appears to be editorializing in saying that this is an optimistic estimate.) (OK i can live with it being moved, but this is fact. Most construction at CVHS has been late and ongoing, so I added that this estimate may not match what will actually happen based on history.)

Thanks.

75.31.195.247 02:30, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

!!!!PS i added this and i will make another edit with my opinions in paranthesis, so u can easily see the changes!!!!

OK, if I still see problems, I will try and tell you them. Thanks 75.31.195.247 02:57, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks...

...for all the work you've put into some of the Alaska-related articles here. I've been reading through them and noticed your name on several histories. I'd drop a barnstar here as a token of my appreciation, but I'm feeling too lazy to look up which one to use... hmm... here, have a mini barnstar: *

Anyway, thanks. Tijuana Brass 05:33, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Diana Krall

Hi Jarfingle,

Last summer I took a jazz workshop at Centrum and Jeff Hamilton was our combo instructor. His story is that Diana Krall attended the Centrum jazz workshop before she was famous. He heard her playing piano in a darkened room, which brought him to tears. He was surprised to find out that it was a student playing, and not one of the professional faculty. According to Jeff, he made sure she got hooked up with the right people.

If my memory is correct, Jeff Hamilton played regularly with Ray Brown. Perhaps that's why the discovery is attributed to Ray Brown.

This is, of course, just a story. I don't happen to have a Diana Krall biography around, which might clear it up a bit.

You seem like a more experienced Wikipedian than I. What do you suggest we do?

Njk 11:21, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for doing the research. :-)

Njk 00:39, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barrow page MySpace link

Jarfingle,

I have spend many hours creating an information page for Barrow on MySpace because I had a lot of trouble finding info on Barrow and I wanted to make it easier for other s to find that info. I do not advertise or post any personal information there, and all photos posted there were taken my me or my wife. I believe that the page is a valuable resource for people seeking info on Barrow, and I gain nothing by it personally other than making contacts in Barrow or from there who can help me revise and improve the information on the page. However, I find that the link has been removed, apparently by you, with the note "removed linkspam."

I have replaced the link to the MySpace page I created. If you wish to remove it again, please discuss it with me. If you would be willing to keep my link provided I make changes to the MySpace page, please advise me on that--I am always looking to improve the site.

I also noticed that you left the commercial link for King Eider Hotel there. While that is a useful link, it's an advertisement because it links to sales pages. I edited the link description as being to King Eider's hotel site in the interest of accuracy. If you disagree with this edit, please let's discuss it. You can email me via the links on the MySpace Barrow page.

Webgrunt

[edit] Here ya go...

[edit] Mt. Edgecumbe High School

Hi, The reason I reverted the category edit from [[Category:Boarding schools in Alaska]] to [[Category:Boarding schools in the United States]] was because the cat link at the bottom of the article for the "Boarding schools in Alaska" category was red at, meaning (to me at least) that the category was non-existant. So thanks for creating the category post facto. My question is, how does one create categories?

Jarfingle 21:54, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, when I edited I thought that Mount Edgecumbe was the school that had already been added back to the parent category once, but that was somewhere else. I had just forgotten to create the category first time round. To create a category, if there is just a red link already just click on it and start the category in the page that will come up. If there is no link, you can create one by adding category:The name of your category to the article. Choalbaton 23:25, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stop being the garbage man

Please quit removing information from the Frank Ticheli page. It's an objective opinion and those should be wikified not deleted. Criticism is allowed on Wikipedia. I'm asking you to stop. Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.51.41.2 (talk) 21:49, 18 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Horizon Air Livery

What I was actually talking about was the 25th anniversary placard that they have on every plane in the horizon fleet, not the one plane (425QX to be exact) that is completely painted in honor of the anniversary. The placard is small, says "celebrating 25 years" and is located next to the entryway door on each plane.

Hope that clarifies things. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rltehrani (talk • contribs) 01:08, 3 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] What is wrong with the airband category?

on the west valley high school page you removed the category of airband, which is a big event at our school. I appreciate you trying to make wikipedia a better place with good content, but what was wrong with it?

Larso 06:26, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your prompt and diplomatic response to my question. I will add it under the extracurriculars category and drop the rankings. Don't hesitate to tell me if it should be changed in any way.

Larso 21:30, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Office

According to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (television) and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (abbreviations), "US" is prefered over "U.S." in article names, even though "U.S." is preferred in the article body. Don't ask me why. Qutezuce 08:50, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Further to your note, yes it is nonsensical, but I was unable to gain consensus to change it last time. I support any attempt to make them uniform. Rich Farmbrough, 16:10 24 March 2007 (GMT).