User talk:Jawed

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Your photograph of Skyline is beautiful. Nice job. Andy M. 21:40, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hey, I came to day just the same thing! I've nominated both Skyline photos on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. You might also like to consider adding yourself to Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Photographers. Say, what software did you use to stitch together the images (surely not the hair-pullingly frustrating PanoTools)? -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 11:16, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I agree, not to mention the Washington DC panorama on your site... BTW, On the paypal article, your comment about proper English is a bit off - if the substance of the edit is valid, then it should simply be cleaned up. We have plenty of people from the Middle East, Asia, the US, and the UK who couldnt 'write English good' to save their lives. We dont want to prejudicially ostracise them for something as simple as spelling and grammar. ;) -Stevertigo 22:25, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Beslan hostage crisis

I understand your reasons for removing the word "terrorists" from Beslan hostage crisis, but there is a delicate truce on the talk page about this matter, and it has been agreed that for now things will be left as they are: one mention of terrorism in the introduction, and "hostage-takers" used in the rest of the article. I have reverted your edit, and if you disagree or want to know more I would ask you to read everything said so far on Talk:Beslan hostage crisis. As it happens I have been the main proponent of the use of neutral terms in the article, and I think the word "terrorist" is inherently POV, but I want to preserve good relations amongst contributors and the current situation is doing that well. Thank you for your understanding. — Trilobite (Talk) 02:26, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Stanford

I am, indeed, serious. :) Hope the Stanfords wouldn't mind. Thanks for the great pix of the Church and so on. Good work! jengod 19:53, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. Did you know you can sign your posts with either three or four tildes depending on whether you want a datestamp? ~~~~ [like so] jengod 19:55, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Zak article

I removed it because walkthroughs for games are very unencyclopedic. The article should be about the game, describing the plot, its influences and such things. An external link to a walkthrough would be ok, though. --Conti|✉ 20:29, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)

There is, however, a wikibook for just this purpose. -- John Fader

[edit] Chihuahua/Great Dane

I responded to your question on my talk page. Why were you asking? Elf | Talk 22:42, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Pic of the day

Hi Humpty,

Just to let you know that your photo Image:San Francisco Bay Area Skyline Blvd2.jpg is due to make a reappearance as Pic of the Day on the 22nd June. I've used the same caption as last time, but you can make any changes at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/June 22, 2005. -- Solipsist 07:52, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Apollo_15_Space_Suit_James_Irwin.jpg

Hi. I just thought I let you know that I have uploaded this image of your to Commons. I did a huge rewrite of the Apollo 15 article and have been creating a nice picture gallery Commons:Apollo 15 at the same time and thought your image was a nice addition. I noticed that your photo of Dave Scott's space suit was already there. Evil Monkey∴Hello 00:18, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

You may also want to upload the high res version of Image:Apollo 15 Space Suit David Scott.jpg to commons:Image:Apollo 15 Space Suit David Scott.jpg. Evil Monkey∴Hello 02:31, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pic of the day

Hi Jawed,

Just to let you know that your photo Image:Apollo 15 Space Suit David Scott.jpg is due to make a reappearance as Pic of the Day on the 8th August. I've made some small changes to the previous caption, but you can make any alterations at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 8, 2005. -- Solipsist 20:53, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] On Rankings

Noticed you seem to have an aversion to rankings, given that they are encyclopedic, what is your beef with them? TheChief (PowWow) 17:47, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

It's very simple. There are many rankings out there, and I've noticed that people always pick the rankings that present their schools in the best light. Alumni of a certain school seem to have no problem including a high ranking in their article, but they complain if you put an equally valid ranking in there that places the school lower. To me that makes including rankings in the first place pointless. Furthermore, I do think that those rankings are very, very arbitrary and don't actually tell you very much about the school. Jawed 19:54, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

While I'll agree schools ought to bear all rankings which are widely recognized (and thus notable), I don't think you can make the decision that "those rankings are very, very arbitrary and don't actually tell you very much about the school". Rankings in general tell you how the school is viewed, and to a large degree what kind of education one can expect from the school, and what kind of graduates the school produces. I'll agree to some degree there is an amount of fuzzyness to the ratings. I'd hire an undergrad from Berkeley (ranked 21st by USNews) well before I'd hire a graduate from Harvard (ranked 1st), but there is little argument that when compared with Miami University(ranked 62nd) both schools are a good deal better, and in general they are better even than a graduate from the University of Virginia.

So yes, rankings to some degree are arbitrary, but I wouldn't say they are very arbitrary. The top ranks are clustered pretty tightly, but a low ranked school (below 50 or so, and to a greater degree below 100) on the USNews rankings will offer a different quality of education than the high ranked schools. This is even more true in graduate rankings where the top schools are the top 10 or 20, with anything less being more or less unfit for serious doctoral work.

As an encyclopedia we're expected to present such information. However in dealing with the NPOV stance, we should also report the world rankings. In fact, the world rankings are highly compatible with the USNews rankings in many ways. An important point to remember is also that rankings, especially USNews, are so popular they become a self fulfilling prophecy. Good students want to go to good schools, so if a school is consistantly ranked high, it will attract the best students. Just my thoughts on the matter, I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on the subject. I'd also propose we think about a WikiProject to ensure NPOV in rankings, and to list all rankings a school recieves from major ranking bodies (though we need to discuss how to do this without displaying so much information that it becomes difficult to peruse). As a note, I monitor all talk pages which I comment on, and will see if you reply here. TheChief (PowWow) 20:57, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright problems with Image:Mk davis pgf.gif

android79 01:24, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging Image:165 University Ave., Palo Alto, California.JPG

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[edit] Request

Hi Jawed,

My name is Fernanda Viégas and I have been studying Wikipedia for a while now (you can see a paper I published on the subject here). I would like to ask you a few questions about your activities as a Wikipedia image creator. I am fascinated by the pictorial side of Wikipedia and it would be great to hear about this community from one of its members. Would you be available to participate an email survey this week? Thanks, — Fernanda 03:17, 4 April 2006 (UTC) | talk

Hi again, Jawed. I have started sending out the questionnaire to participants in the study and it would be great if you could participate too. If you'd like to get in touch with me via email, please use the "Email this user" feature on my page. Thanks! — Fernanda 21:25, 4 April 2006 (UTC) | talk

[edit] Fuqua pronounciation

Someone deleted your comment on the Fuqua School of Business talk page, but just FYI, the name doesn't sound like "fuck" at all; it's pronounced fyoo-kwa. 卫weizhe哲 23:59, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You're so fast!

Wow, that was like two seconds ago. Jeez. And it's your fault I got addicted to Wikipedia in the first place! Hope your Wikipedia addiction isn't tearing you away from work too much. ;) --Che Fox 05:28, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I agree with you

See response on Duke University's talk page. -Bluedog423^Talk 05:26, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Dad's Puzzle.jpg listed for deletion

[edit] Madison Square Garden

Hi, since you have written on the Madison Square Garden Talk page before, I want to know if you can comment on the current debate on whether a sentence I wrote, about WWE blocking WCW from ever having a show in the garden, belongs in the article. My opinion is that the fact is as important to MSG history as it was to the WWE. Milchama 10:53, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Larry Ellison Hotdog.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Larry Ellison Hotdog.jpg. I notice the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this file yourself, then there needs to be a justification explaining why we have the right to use it on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you did not create the file yourself, then you need to specify where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.

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[edit] Congratulations!

This is the best way I know how to reach you, so:

Congratulations, man. Seriously. Wow. --Che Fox 23:10, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] hawaii pano...

nice pano of the ranch in hawaii... --MattWright (talk) 21:07, 10 December 2006 (UTC)