User talk:JeLuF

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[edit] Welcome

Welcome to the 'pedia! I like what you have done to the place. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. --maveric149

Hi JeLuF, I'm very sorry for the delayed response. I was off wikipedia for quite sometime. Thanks for changing the name. Harikishore is fine with me. Thanks.

Hi JeLuF, I see you find a lot of crappy pages everyday and clear them. That's good and necessary work, but you could make the deletions even faster by listing these empty pages on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion, which is checked frequently by most administrators (who can deleted the pages in question). Moreover, we then know that the page is crap without having to check its history first. Just a tip, keep up the good work! Jeronimo

Thanks for the diagram pointer you placed on my talk page. --mav

Hey, JeLuf, here's how that Sorbitol picture looks: http://www.wikipedia.org/upload/e/e6/Sorbitol.png - I'm not sure why it doesn't work. ~Merinda

re Drew Barrymore/Filmography - there's not much point in having this as a redirect. It's an orphan anyway; previously the only page that linked to it was the main Drew Barrymore page. There was only a small number of pages that were set up in this manner some time ago. Their content has all been merged to the appropriate place, and they should probably be all deleted. Eclecticology 21:52 Sep 29, 2002 (UTC)

If you find a page that just says "hi" or some other totally irrelevant nonsense, and you don't know enough about the subject to write something, please just delete it instead of listing it on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion and having it languish there for a week. -phma

Jef, I think the boxing pages are all right, because the person who wrote them mentions these fighter's defeats as well as their problems with the law. How could you consider that this writer is only writing in favor of those boxers then?

Did you read my response to your question on my User page ? -- JeLuF

Thanks for doing the grunt work seeking out copyright violations and marking them for deletion. This is something I used to do a lot of but lately I haven't \ had much time to do this. I've also noticed that you don't appear to be an Admin. You might want to consider posting a note on the Wikipedia mailing list asking to be one -- I'll make sure it happens. Then instead of having to post pages like Cervidae on the votes for deletion page you can just delete the page yourself (these are recoverable by other Admins if you make a mistake). Thanks again for doing Wikipedia weeding. --mav


Plz read the two competing versins of New Imperialism, I think mine is far easier to read. I would use preview more often if the edit box and the displaced preview were reversed. Vera Cruz

The article on Passarella was an appropriate one for es.wikipedia, thank you. --User:AstroNomer Thank you -- Youssefsan

Thank you very much for deleting the article List of best physicists and for your observation that it can't never become NPOV. For other nonsensical Geschwafel, please see its talk page -- if it still exists there somewhere. I am doing my best herein but I can't stand for such actions from administrators here. With respect. --XJamRastafire

In the future please list items on the correct pages before adding them to the Selected Articles section on the Main Page. See Wikipedia:Selected Articles on the Main Page for some guidelines and why this is important. --mav 20:20 Feb 2, 2003 (UTC)

Hi JeLuF, great idea to add those factsheets to the Bundesland articles. What may be a little bit disappointing, is the look of flags with large white portions. You mentioned, that there was a problem with Mozilla - does Mozilla ignore the div-border? Display in IE and Opera was fine. You don't know, if there is another possibility to force a border surrounding the jpegs, do you? -- Cordyph 20:59 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)


Hi again; now it's much better. An alternative solution would be to create a grey background, see Poland for example. Unfortunately I do not have the flags in PNG format. Originally they are in GIF format, but I converted them to JPG, since it is not possible to upload GIFs (IIRC). I am not able to convert them to PNG with my software on board here. -- Cordyph 21:53 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)

I just realised, that I actually am able to convert to PNG with the tool, I used all the time. Sorry for that. Next time I will convert GIF to PNG instead of JPG. -- Cordyph 22:59 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)

Hi JeLuF, I just thought, you might be interested in joining this project: WikiProject German districts. If so, you are very welcome to add your name to the contributors. (I've just set up that project today, so there is almost no work done by now.) -- Cordyph 19:17 Feb 24, 2003 (UTC)

Hi! I just wanted to say thank you for your words on the mailing list. -- Cordyph 17:05 Mar 10, 2003 (UTC)

What do you think should be the deletion procedure for obsolete maps (i.e. jpg maps replaced with png maps). Shall I place them on Votes for deletion first, or may I go ahead and delete them instantly? Sorry, you know, that I am a new sysop. -- Cordyph 09:28 Mar 11, 2003 (UTC)

Hi,

Why have you reverted the change that I've made to Navier that was a redirect to a user page User:Navier? (Sorry, I wrongly written on your user page) -- looxix 16:48 Mar 23, 2003 (UTC)

Hi JeLuf, Many thanks for your advice.
I don't mind giving each genus its own page, and concentrating Paulchoffatiidae onto one page appears not to have been a good idea. Do the number of pages on obscure topics matter? That's why I was trying to impose some limit, albeit perhaps unnecessarily.
To give some idea of the potential scale, there are about a dozen members of Paulchoffatiidae. This is but a part of Multituberculata, (circa 80+ genera).
If or when I can get that into a reasonable form, I'd eventually like to do Mesozoic Eucynodontia, (= Mesozoic mammals plus nearly-mammals). That probably encompasses about 300 - 350 obscure genera, (though a few are quite exciting, zB Eomaia). I'll happily go ahead and try it. But I wouldn't want to do that, if it were considered somehow unnecessarily disruptive or unwelcome.

Re. Multituberculata: "(some wikification, KTDykes, pls check whether I did mess up any content?)" Hi JeLuF,
I'll have to check that later. I'm still more concerned with getting the paulchoffatiids right. (I messed up the species names with one of the genera myself. It's easily done!) If I can do that, (freilich kann ich das. Es geht lediglich um wie, und ich glaube, dass es nun richtig orientiert ist), then I can happily carry on.<;br> I also noticed the original multituberculate entry was exteremly like the 'Introduction to Multituberculata' page of an American university, which is where it effectively came from. I've done a couple of subtle changes to it. The original author would still recognize their writing has been heavily 'borrowed' by a Wiki-ist, but it contains several details they probably wouldn't know. I must swop Meniscoessus for a better Mongolian multi, when I get that far. (There are some excellent multituberculate fossils from Mongolia).
Cheers Trevor

I'll use the boilerplate text from now on. -- Notheruser 08:35 Apr 6, 2003 (UTC)

Em. . . you didn't revert James I to an the pre-edit war state. You reverted it to well before that. I had just done a major re-write and layout change a couple of hours before. Can you make sure when the page is unprotected that it goes back to that point? I know the whole thing is messy but Susan Mason seems to have been on a mission to screw up things tonight. (The last time I looked she was making a balls of Charles I. I had gone through all the royal pages adjusting layouts and she seems to be following my work around. On Charles I, she rearranged contents in a way that would make your average historian cringe and your professional layout person pull their hair out in despair.) Until Adam (the person behind 'Susan') is banned, wiki is going to be a nightmare, if past experiences are anything to go by. STÓD/ÉÍRE 07:32 Apr 12, 2003 (UTC)


Hello again

Did not think about it...could you please add fr:Wikipédia:Administrateurs as interlanguage link as well please ? Besides, I think you made a mistake, because the talk page of the admin page is protected as well now. Surely, it is not a good idea for the talk page to be protected. User:anthere

I went ahead with the disamb of "Republican" for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Congress. You said it will be easier to regen above that. BobCMU76 17:36 May 11, 2003 (UTC)

I very much wish he would go away, if he refuses to know what he's talking about. Koyaanis Qatsi

Hello JeLuF -- welcome to the world of HJ -- just look for H.J. on the site, and you'll find that she is very interested in making us all know that much of eastern Europe really belongs to Germany. more Drang than Sturm, but a real pain in the ass nonetheless. JHK

I've been going through the ip range of AOL by hand, and I was suprised to find that someone had beat me to Butthole Surfers. Thanks alot! Your help is greatly appriciated! MB 20:21 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)

User:Wrongbros, made a contribution to List of record labels and it was reverted. Is this Michael? If not, why was it reverted? MB 19:43 10 Jun 2003 (UTC)

forgot to sing what?

Hi, re the protected pages, Joe Canuck has been systematically inserting potentially copyright images on a series of pages. They were removed and placed on the Votes for Deletion page. He became abusive to everyone and has systematically tried to reinsert the images. He has been proposed for banning (he is already banned as DW). To stop his constant attempts to reinsert the images, I had no choice but to protect them. I am in the process of doing that, because he has already tried a number of times to revert pages that other users reverted to remove the images. When I have finished the list they will be put on the protected page with a full explanation.

Canuck downloaded these images but refused to state origin or whether they were copyright free. All requests by all users that he clarify the information had led to serious and prolonged abuse and legal threats. That is the reason for the temporary protection, which will be removed when either the images are deleted (and there is 100% agreement on the deletion page that they should be deleted). We just have to wait for the full week before doing so. Alternatively the user may well be banned in the meantime. A number of people have requested his immediate banning. It is unfair to other users that the pages are no longer available to edit, but that is a necessary precaution to stop Canuck from spending the next couple of days doing nothing but reverting the pages, producing edit wars simultaneously on ten or more pages as everyone else is sucked into reverting his revertions constantly during each day. Sorry if the protection has caused any inconvenience to you but there is no other way until either the images are deleted or he is banned of stopping his constant reversions. FearÉIREANN 19:08 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Hi. Re the Joe Canuck thing, I agree but it was an utterly exceptional situation. Before I even removed the images initially from the pages I spoke to a lot of users. I also repeatedly asked Joe for information, only to receive a lot of abuse from him and have him remove all requests from his talk page. I protected a note I put on each image when removed because I guessed that one of his tactics would be to reinsert things after removing the note and possibly to claim that he did not know. Protecting the images meant the note was there for him to see and he could not claim ignorance.

As to protecting the pages when he tried to reinsert the images, that happened as an instant reaction. I could not see any sysops on when I signed on. It wasn't a case of my being party to an edit war but of one user systematically abusing users and abusing the explicit rules of wiki. As a sysop I saw my job as protecting wiki and its users. He was already reverting users' removal of his images (with abusive to everyone involved, they simply having removed images that he had reinstalled after he had unambiguously been told not to. ). I saw it as my duty to wiki and to temporarily stop him in his tracks. I left a message on Mav's page telling him what I proposed to do. (From what I could see Mav was not on at the time so I could not ask him to intervene.) I then systematically 'locked' each page to stop JC constantly doing this. I then emailed Jimbo, explained what I had done, why I had done it, what Canuck had done and also how in examining the pages I had come across pretty conclusive evidence in terms of textual edits that Canuck was DW. (DW rowed with everyone over a particular style he wanted to use. He ignored everyone else then and rammed through his changes, even though they ran completely contrary to the agreed wiki style. Canuck was using the exact same style DW had followed.) I then requested his immediate banning. I left a copy of the email on Jimbo's page (though the email was slightly more detailed, as more info had become available by the time I was copying the page message into a private email to Jimbo). Circumstances beyond my control prevented me instantly putting details of the blocking onto the protected list. (1) The sheer number of pages that required blocking took up a lot of time, and I felt that unless I that immediately there would be up to fifteen edit wars going on simultaneously, (JC versus the rest of wiki) so stopping that was my first priority. It is worth nothing that even those users who normally urge caution when dealing with trolls supported my actions all the way through. (2) an unexpected and important phonecall took me off line for half an hour, again preventing me from adding in the full list of protected pages immediately. As soon as I was able to, I did so. And as soon as I got a message saying JC was banned, I then unprotected all the pages.

It was very much an interim solution to stop this user, who was flagrantly breaking wikipedia rules and verbally abusing users in the process (some of the users abused are children and I felt a particular responsibility to protect them from this nutter). But it was not in any sense me protecting pages where I had been involved in an edit war. I was simply protecting wiki from legal problems, protecting users from nasty edit wars and dealing with someone who was by that stage clearly identificable as a multiple banned user acting in the extreme manner that he was known (and hated) for. As I have said, all the steps along the way the removal of images, their protection and then the protection I sought advice. Had there been any disagreement as to those courses of action I would not have acted as I did. I expected that Canuck was going to be banned as a result of his actions so the protections were only ever intended to be temporarily; only a matter of hours. Had he not been immediately banned I intended to contact various sysops, tell them what I had provisionally done, ask them to review it and if they thought the protection was wrong to reverse it. But from the number of emails I have received and AIM messages (due to new server problems I was not able to be on after the events to talk to people directly) everyone agreed that it was the right response that shut down his behaviour, prevented edit wars, while allowing Jimbo to decide whether JC should be banned.

I hope I never am put in that position again and that the next time DW turns up and acts in such a manner, other sysops are around to deal with him. But in the circumstances I believe I did the right thing and the result was to stop an abusive banned user from waging a series of edit wars while protecting wiki from any legal problems that might have arisen through the use of potentially copyright images. There is apparently another multiple banned user on wiki right now, but it is not for me to unilaterally deal with them. The problems they cause are due to style and attitude. With JC/DW it was a flagrant and protracted abuse of wiki rules that left wiki potentially open at any time to legal problems that could endanger the entire project. So in his case it was an emergency that required emergency measures, and at the time it seemed as though I was the only sysop available with the powers to stop this user in his tracks, pending his banning. I hope that clears up matters. FearÉIREANN 08:01 21 Jun 2003 (UTC)


It doesn't last very long once you realize its there, but your image at derivative has a neat optical illusion which makes the secant appear to be curved! Pizza Puzzle

I saw the deletions and comments you made on User:Joe Canuck's personal page. According to the e-mail list, Mr. Jimbo Wales said User:Joe Canuck has the right to appeal the ban. And, the ban is in response to an allegation only. I seems to me that it sure would be pretty hard for User Joe Canuck to appeal that ban because it was done late Friday and as Mr. Wales isn't at Wikipedia on weekends, he should be given proper time to appeal. Don't you think maybe your action is premature and unwarranted? I do, because I believe in the right to defend ones self when unproven allegations are made. Out of respect, I shall revert what you did. ChuckM 22:42 22 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Looked like obvious vandalism to me, I warned him/her as well as you. If you're not happy to treat this as vandalism, I will of course stop deleting now, and you can restore the deleted Castles (I always get timed out) on that, Sorry jimfbleak 19:14 3 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi from Adrian in England! I expect someone has mentioned this already but I believe you are not allowed to use some of the pics on your APOD to-do list without writing for permission to the copyright owners. Many of them on the list are copyright as the notice on APOD says. I reproduce it below .....
About image permissions: All the images on the APOD page are credited to the owner or institution where they originated. Some of the images are copyrighted and to use these pictures publicly or commercially one must write to the owners for permission. For the copyrighted images, the copyright owner is identified in the APOD credit line (please see the caption under the image), along with a hyperlink to the owner's location. NASA images are in the public domain, official guidelines for their use can be found here. For images credited to other owners/institutions, please contact them directly for copyright and permissions questions.

Neither NASA nor APOD can grant permission to use copyrighted images. For use of these images, please write to the copyright owners.

I just thought you might not have realised about the copyright situation.
Best Wishes Adrian Pingstone 22:13 3 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Sorry, it looks like I'm wrong about your APOD selection. I saw the list of credits to various science institutions (under each pic)and thought that meant some of the pics were therefore copyright. However, I hadn't spotted that every picture had NASA at the end of the credits. So it looks like I was writing nonsense. Sorry!.
Adrian Pingstone 08:04 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)
I didn't mean "spelling corrected", that was meant for someone else!
Adrian Pingstone 12:42 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hello JeLuF, I just realised that the article Bundesland was turned into a disambiguation page. That was two months ago, but I haven't realised it all the time. In principle this was a good idea, but now the Bundesland article is by far the leader of the Disambiguation pages with links list. 282 links are pointing to the disambiguation page. Actually it would have been your task to correct these links.


One of these 282 links is pointing from the template on Wikiproject German districts. That means, that Ahoerstemeier and I created new articles with links to that non-existing page almost every day, even worsening the situation.

It would be nice, if you could help to repair the damage. You won't have to do that alone. I will help out, but I really want to change that top-ranking situation with 282 links. I am now going to change the template of the WikiProject, more work will follow tomorrow. Best wishes -- Cordyph 19:29 10 Jul 2003 (UTC)

To disambiguate means to change something from a general term like "State" to a more specific one like "Bundesland", or "Bundesland (Germany)", or "State (Germany)". To change a link to State into a link to States of Germany isn't really disambiguation, because "States of Germany" is not a type of state. That's my point of pedantry; now for the useful point. I think it would be far better to link to State (Germany), and then have that as a redirect to States of Germany, because then if it is decided to have a separate article on what a German state is, the links will not all have to be changed again. Only a few redirects will need to be changed. -- Oliver P. 09:26 12 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Fair enough. :) I didn't realise how much you'd done. That's a pretty impressive amount of editing! -- Oliver P. 10:00 12 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi JeLuF, thank you for fixing the problem so fast. Your speed was probably record-breaking ;-) -- Cordyph 10:52 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)

That is the same way, I use to do it: Opera 7, up to ten windows opened simultaneously. The best way of effective wiki editing (although this way of editing may slow the wiki further down). Cheers -- Cordyph 08:15 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Could you not massively delete stuff? it is choking the server? Dmsar 10:51 26 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi JeLuf,

Please confer my user talk page: User talk:Tonius

Merci,

Tonius

"Great projects are done efficiently in layers. They begin with a skeletal framework and are finished faster with teamwork." -- Tonius

Hi JeLuF, you are right, the colours of the coat of arms were wrong. I just changed them using my graphics tool; hopefully they are correct now. Unfortunately it is very difficult to find these coats of arms, if they are not on the districts' pages. Often I have to take bad quality images. In my opinion a bad image is better than no image - as long as the colours are not wrong. -- Cordyph 12:43, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Please see the Timeline of video games User talk:Tonius 03:28

When RK comes back I want to nominate him for sysop (again) I dont ask for much, but I ask that you support his nomination. Sincerely-戴&#30505sv 23:19, Aug 16, 2003 (UTC)

Hi,

ändere bitte auf Deinem Stimmzettel die 0er- in 1er-Stimmen oder entferne sie. 0 ist keine gültige Option.—Eloquence 13:33, Sep 16, 2003 (UTC)

Howdy,

Thank you. I hope to be active there. Greudin 11:24, 31 Oct 2003 (UTC)

I have no idea what issue you might have, with the usage of commas and semi-colons. Lirath Q. Pynnor

I'm sorry that I gave the impression that I thought you'd behaved badly in the Mother Teresa/Wikipedia:VfD item. I actually thought the edit you did was fine and have clarified on VfD. However, I did want others to be aware of the chance. JamesDay 10:21, 10 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi JeLuF !! I think you need to check dates for Chapman article ! Cannot be born 1806 to die 1805 surely? May well not be your error!! No sooner mentioned than ponced upon and corrected by a User!!Norwikian 16:05, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject US Congress

Hi, I was just wondering what the status was with Wikipedia:WikiProject US Congress. It doesn't look like much has been done with it in a long time. Kingturtle 05:06, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)


[edit] Why was the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms Marked for deletion?

I am unsure as to why someone marked this page for deletion. Is it because of the excerpt? In worst case, it can be removed completely. However, I do not believe that putting the except of a law and linking to full page at the bottom is reason enough to delete the page. -- Mathieugp

Re: Disc tumbler lock. Thanks! If you know of other stuff that could use illustrations like this, let me know. I'm having a lot of fun doing them. -- Wapcaplet 23:53, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)

What is the "Wikipedia Gardening Club"? Noldoaran 03:27, Nov 28, 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for your responce, JeLuF!
Noldoaran 17:58, Nov 28, 2003 (UTC)

The feedback form on their site didn't work, and I got another e-mail address that I thought was for the site and wrote to that but they said it wasn't their site and didn't know anything about it. I can't even figure out where I got that one from now. So, it's back to square one with no more permission than some anon IP saying they had permission, which I am really not inclined to believe. What do you think should be done with the article? Mkweise has removed the copyvio boilerplate again. Angela 19:15, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Thanx, Olkusz corrected CC 06:22, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I didn't insit on adding images, I was just trying to fix the format of the images already on the page.Alexandros

Hi JeLuF -- I just emailed you too, but former U.S. Senator Paul Simon died today and was rather prominent -- I just created an article for him at Paul M. Simon -- could you add it to recent deaths on the Main Page? Thanks, BCorr ¤ Брайен 23:11, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Why are you removing uses of the word "ironically"?!? It serves a very specific purpose, namely to alert the reader to situations that run counter to expectations. Your changes are making good English prose worse, not better. Stan 23:48, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)

First, Wikipedia does rate things all the time, particularly when there is a consensus among authorities as to the rating - are you also deleting every instance of "greatest", "best", etc that you see? By your definition, those are ratings too. Second, the ultimate purpose of an article is to explain things, and it is all too easy for a reader to completely miss that a situation is ironic; to assume that it is obvious is to assume too much about our readers. Remember that we're writing for a very large audience, and that you are probably more intelligent than 99% of that audience, so what's easy for you to follow is most likely harder for others. It is to aid those others that we need to have hints and guideposts that go beyond a bare recitation of facts. Stan 22:27, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)
If 1 out of 100 authorities disagrees with a commonly-held assessement, you should add that as an explanatory note, not delete the assessment! Wikipedia:Neutral point of view covers this in detail; see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view#Characterizing opinions of people's work which specifically says "For instance, that Shakespeare is one of the greatest authors of the English language is a bit of knowledge that one should learn from an encyclopedia", and Wikipedia:Neutral point of view#Lack of neutrality as an excuse to delete. If you've done the research to prove that an assessment is not neutral, then it should be no problem to bring it up on the talk page; summary deletion is lazy and destructive. Stan 00:16, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hi there Je LuF. Thanks for tidying up the mess I made of Rococo and Rococo Style, I had planned to do the samething myself when I logged on tonight. However on re reading the Rococo article it is very different from the article I wrote on Rococo Style and it is hgard to see how to merge them. Could I suggest instead that we leave the Rococo article as it stands now and article I wrote be renamed Rococo Style in Furniture which would be a more accurate description: with, of course, links btween them. Cheers ping 07:40, 1 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I didn't know that, thank you very much. I was pretty angry when I wrote that message on my user talk page, now I'd rather forget the whole thing. Well not quite forget -- it now seems that many people showed a great deal of concern and sympathy, and that I won't forget. -- Tim Starling 09:21, Jan 4, 2004 (UTC)

Philip Jeremiah Schuyler and party question: I took it from Political Graveyard, a site I've found to be reliable for snapshot biographies of political figures. I don't know where he got it from, but I've E-mailed site owner (Larry Kestenbaum) to ask if he has a reference. I'll hold off any update till I get an answer, then put it on Schulyer's talk page (unless he was a Federalist). Thanks, Lou I 15:40, 7 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hi, ich hab versucht, was in den Sourceforge-Tracker zu posten, das hat nicht geklappt, deshalb schreib ich's dir direkt:

es geht um zentrierte Bilder in einer Tabelle, z.B. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seesterne

Mozilla zeigt sie korrkt an, aber Opera 7 rückt sie links ein. Der Grund ist ein Fehler in den CSS-Dateien (alle Skins):

div.thumbnail-none, div.thumbnail-right, div.thumbnail-left {
...
  margin: 0.3em 0 0.5em;
...
}

D.h. links und rechts sollen 0 Pixel bleiben, was so ja nicht korrekt ist. 

Wenn man es in
  margin: 0.3em auto 0.5em;
abändert, zeigen Mozilla, Opera und IE es zentriert an. --Head 12:10, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Inzwischen wurde der Artikel geändert, hier ist die Version, die ich meine: [1] --80.185.162.218 21:21, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)
FIXED

[edit] Image syntax

Do you intend to make any changes to the image syntax? Some things that come up relatively often:

  • markup in image captions, e.g. [[Image:Foo.jpg|thumb]]<caption>''This is a caption with [[markup]].''</caption>
  • centering of images
  • produce aligned images with captions but without a thumbnail/magnifying glass

Markup in captions would be particularly important.—Eloquence 04:40, Feb 15, 2004 (UTC)

Suggestion for images with captions, but without magnifying glass:
[[Image:Foo.jpg|frame|This is the caption]]
It would also be nice to make the frame background color variable, e.g.
[[Image:Bar.png|frame|#000000|caption]]
Would give an image with a white frame and without magnifying glass.
This would be useful e.g. for animal photos inside tables. --Head 17:50, Feb 16, 2004 (UTC)

I have a small request for the extended image syntax, and I believe it would be very easy to implement. Using a new code word ( suggest ...|max|...) I would like the pixel size to apply to the longest edge. So ...|max|200px|... would size a landscape shot to be 200px wide, and a portrait shot to be 200px high. The short edge would be whatever it had to be to keep the image proportions. - Gaz 17:03, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Congress

Hi, I saw Wikipedia:Wikiproject US Congress and was interested. Personally, I think that each member deserves an article. We should probably recruit some additional people for this; any ideas? Also, a cry for help: I've started a List of House Committees, trying to get an article for each, but it's tough going. I'd really appreciate the help, as those articles will be necessary info for all the members' articles. Hope to hear from you soon, Meelar 06:05, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I'm sorry about not putting the currency on the El Hadji Diouf page when I made it but my pound sign on my keyboard is not working so could you please do it for me. Thanks Sticky2004

hey Jeluf... ich hab den Unsinn beim Tendo Ryu Artikel in der Deutschen Wikipedia rückgängig gemacht... die homepage gehört dem menschen der den artikel reingestellt hat... ich hab ihn sogar darum gebeten das doch in die wikipedia zu stellen... Gruß, Catmangu 12:19, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Try Template:BlockedProxy, which becomes:


This IP address has been blocked because it is believed to be an open proxy or zombie computer. To prevent abuse, editing from these proxies is currently prohibited. For more information about open proxies and what you can do, please see the WikiProject on open proxies.

Bit more polite if we do hit any third parties (which we probably won't). Martin 21:10, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. Martin 22:12, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Blocked Proxies

Hi. How are you coming up with the list of open proxies you're blocking? Just curious. RickK 05:27, Jun 18, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Userpage problem

I don't know if you noticed, but there was confusion during the vandalbot attacks, and your user page still has one of those stupid letter-replacement edits -- all the "l"s are now "y"s. I wanted to change them, but figured I wouldn't violate your userpage to fix it -- sorry to be the bringer of bad news. :-) Jwrosenzweig 22:22, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Changing usernames

Would it be possible for you to stop by the changing usernames page? There's a few waiting, and you seem to be the only person bothering to do any of late. Ambivalenthysteria 14:21, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Developer poll

Hi. PLease give your opinion about m:Developer payment poll. Thanks. SweetLittleFluffyThing

[edit] Double database entries

Hello,

Echoray on DE said, you told him about double database entries, which lead to bogus entries in orphaned article lists (de:Benutzer:Echoray/Verwaiste Artikel). I created a list there and here, which contains these double entries:

Do you have more information about this inconsistency? --SirJective 14:46, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] bug 238

(In reply to comment #1)
> I don't understand. The history page already shows as:
> # (cur) (last) ( ) 12:29, Aug 9, 2004 193.29.77.110
> # (cur) (last) ( ) 02:18, Aug 8, 2004 80.213.161.178
> where "last" directly links to the diff of the edit done by this user.

For example http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=La_Grande_Menace
I would like to know what this user wrote on "Le Bistro" (French Village Pump) on 7 nov 2003 à 02:42
I first have to click on "hist" then click on "500" then 17 times on "next 500" (and wait) and, at last, click on "dern" (last, Letzte) before seing what this user wrote in the Bistro.

If there were a "diff" link on each "Special:Contributions" page (as in any history page), it would be easier to read old contributions on pages where many changes (hundreds) are done. -aka-demia 13:14, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC) (French user)

[edit] Wikijunior skin?

Would you be able to help develop a skin for the Wikijunior project? I saw your Cheops design, and it's spectacular. In case you haven't heard of this Wikimedia project, the board just got a grant to create a series of kids non-fiction magazines/books, which will be archived online. -- user:zanimum

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

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

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

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 what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. – Ram-Man (comment) (talk)[[]] 14:16, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] RFC pages on VfD

Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:50, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] did you block the real user Grunt or the fake user Grunt

There's a fake user Grunt%AD or %ADGrunt%AD who is not the real user Grunt.

The fake users apparently can't be successfully blocked. If you have figured out a way, you should let other admins know. If not, you should unblock the real user Grunt.

-- Curps 09:59, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)


Can you post your method to User_talk:Jimbo Wales? There's a discussion there.

One person tried blocking Grunt&shy; but that apparently didn't stop the user from continuing to make edits. -- Curps 10:08, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Request for modification to Special:Newimages feature

Hi JeLuF,

Is it possible to modify the Special:Newimages feature to filter out new images from bots for the upload logs, in addition to the text edits? — DV 21:04, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bugzilla

Hallo JeLuF, ein der deutschen WP gibt es keine Seite "Wikipedia:Bugzilla". Meinst du die Seite de:Wikipedia:Beobachtete Fehler? Ich habs gefunden. -- de:Benutzer:Martin-vogel

Ich bins nochmal. Schaust du mal auf der deutschen "Ich brauche Hilfe" unter "Signaturfälschung" (20.4.05) ? de:Benutzer:Martin-vogel

[edit] Thanks

Hi JeLuF, thanks for making me a sysop on li:. I will request for permanent adminship on li: on meta soon, because our only sysop will not have internet access for some time. Bests, Ciceronl 22:18, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sababurg

How do you do, Ms/Mr JeLuF. I'm QBay in Japan.

I find de:Bild:Sababurg.jpg which you uploaded. I wrote about "Deutsche Märchenstraße" in jp.wikipedia (ja:ドイツ・メルヘン街道). I'd like to use the photograph. The photograph must be useful for other languages of wikipedia.

Would you upload the image to Wikimedia Commons? --ja:利用者:汲平 --QBay 4 July 2005 02:35 (UTC)

I found you upload the photograph of Sababurg (de:Bild:Sababurg.jpg) as public domain. SO, I do re-upload the picture to Wikimedia Commons. Than you. --汲平 / QBay Aug. 11, 2005

[edit] Test

Bug-testing message as requested on IRC. — Dan | Talk 18:08, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Old patent comment

JPG is a so called "lossy" compression format. It is designed to compress photos. When using it with drawings, diagrams or other images with few colors and high contrast it generates ugly artefacts and too big files. GIF is a format for drawings, but it is restricted to 256 colors. If your drawing doesn't have more colors than generate a GIF first and convert it to PNG (We don't like GIFs here due to some patent issues). If you're having more than 256 colors, generate a BMP and convert that to PNG. If the resulting PNG is to big upload it and drop me a note at User talk:JeLuF, I will than have a look at it. -- JeLuF 08:15, 5 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Actually, JeLuF, the GIF patent is expired. So that restriction is moot now (PNG is still more versatile though). Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 18:40, 2005 September 9 (UTC)

[edit] request for bureaucratship at tamil wiktionary

Hi, I am user:ravidreams, I would like to become a bureaucrat in the Tamil Wikitionary since there is no bureaucrat there till now. i have the same username there. I have got support from the community. you can find the elections page here . I was directed at meta wikimedia site to ask a developer regarding this and i hope i am asking the right person. thank you--Ravishankar 09:24, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Slovene Wikipedia

As you're one of the developers I'm turning to you with request to translate some on MediaWiki software, used on :sl. As of now we're still using english command for categories, but we wish to use slovene version (Kategorija instead of Category); some of associated commands were already translated, but this wasn't. Another translation is of Template to Predloga. Regards, --Klemen Kocjancic 10:51, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] meta:BiDi workgroup

[edit] Idw|Image:Archimede's Screw.jpg

[edit] Image:Archimede's Screw.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Archimede's Screw.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

Now orphaned, moved to Commons and the two articles which used it changed to use commons copy. Archimerged 00:40, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] V (magazine)

The magazine is real, not fictitious. It is advertised everywhere in Helsinki. The reason there is so little information about it in the article is that no issues of it have actually been published so far. JIP | Talk 18:31, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Prod comments

When you're proposing something up for deletion using {{prod}}, please put in a reason for its deletion, like so: {{prod|This article is about an utterly non-notable person.}}. Thanks. --Cyde Weys 03:13, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bilder mit ungültigem Namen in de.wikipedia

Huhu Akl, ich habe hier eine kleine Liste an Bildern, die einen ungültigen Titel haben, also ein Sonderzeichen wie \/:*%"<>| haben. Ein Beispiel: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Phosphor_gasf%25F6rmig.png wird angezeigt als de:Bild:Phosphor gasf�rmig.png, ist rot weil leer, aber wie du hier sehen kannst, ist es irgendwie da: hhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/1/1f/Phosphor_gasf%25F6rmig.png. Jemand im Chat sagte mir, soetwas können nur Developer direkt aus der DB löschen. An dieser Stelle kommst du ins Spiel... Würdest du dir den Augenblick Zeit nehmen? Ich habe schon mal mit Akl drüber geredet, der mich an dich weitergeleitet hat. Schaengel89 17:46, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A minor request

Hi, JeLuf, I randomly picked your name from the list of developers (because I liked the way it sounded!). Could you perhaps do 1 little favour for me? When I put a link to [ [st:User:Zyxoas]] at the bottom of my en user page it says "In other languages: seSotho" instead of "Sesotho". Could you perhaps change that 1 word? I could give a complicated linguistic explanation but I was hoping that the fact that I speak the language natively would convince you that I'm correct. Thank you. Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 17:47, 26 April 2006 (UTC)


Okay. The Bantu languages have a grammatical gender system using noun prefixes. So the root is -sotho and the prefix Se. Other words derived from the root are Mosotho, Basotho, and Lesotho. In the Nguni langs the prefixes of proper nouns are written in lower case (thus isiZulu, isiXhosa etc). The person who made the original request was just mal-informed and confused (Sesotho is not an Nguni lang). Could you point me to the original request?


For a distressing peek into Wikiped's coverage of African languages Google for "Chitsonga" and tell me if you notice the pattern (seriously, try it)... The name is actually Xitsonga but countless articles on various Wikipedias say "Chitsonga"! As I said before, I speak the language; I'm actually currently busy converting the Sesotho Wikiped system messages to, well, Sesotho! What's up with the link to "Category:Wikipedia blocked open proxies" @ the bottom of this talk page? Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 11:28, 27 April 2006 (UTC)


Hello. Mr. F? Could you perhaps tell me how far you are in resolving/investigating this issue? Or could you tell me where my request would be more appropriate? Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 22:10, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Zyx asked me to come talk to you, because I've been trying to get a Wikistyle together for African language names. As far as I can tell, he's completely correct that "Sesotho" should be capitalised like that, and this is (according to User:Joziboy) the only form in the Oxford Dictionary of South African English (see my survey-in-progress here.)
The incorrect form "seSotho" seems to have arisen by mistaken analogy with "isiZulu" and "isiXhosa", which are written thus in their own languages and have a variety of forms in English. This confusion may have been increased by the word Sotho, which is an umbrella term for Sesotho, Setwsana, etc (as Germanic is to German, English, etc). However, according to Zyx, who is a native-speaker of Sesotho, Sesotho is never written seSotho, not even in Sesotho. He explains this here. This chimes with my own humble experience of Setswana. I hope this helps. Please ask if there is more I can do. Cheers, JackyR 19:47, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Saints Wikiproject

I noted that you have been contributing to articles about saints.

You are invited to participate in Saints WikiProject, a project dedicated to developing and improving articles about saints. We are currently discussing prospects for the project. Your input would be greatly appreciated!


Thanks! --evrik 19:53, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suggested extension: border around images

In case you're interested, I've suggested an extension that would allow a border to be put directly around the image proper at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6072. --LambiamTalk 12:01, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] hu.wikisource and stuff

Hi, please see http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5518; we are happy that hu.wikisource is up (thank you!) but it is yet uncertain whether the article transfer, the mediawiki namespace from huwp and the flags would be done as well or not (as they were requested on the linked page). I am not even sure who to nag about it. :) Thanks in advance, plase reply at w:hu:user vita:grin. --grin ✎ 21:12, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] merge

Hallo. i want to merge my two useraccounts. who can i ask, or wath can i do? De:Benutzer:Robinhood and De:Benutzer:Robinhut --58.84.79.95 01:46, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit link on diff views

I noticed it a little while ago and I couldn't figure out who to thank. Since you seem to be the one responsible for it, danke schön! It is great not having to copy/paste the link and append &action=edit or load the entire revision and click the edit button. Kotepho 21:14, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re Séan Crowe

Thanks for changing Sean to Séan, I did not know how to do it.

Thanks!!

Rms125a@hotmail.com 23:52, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ch.wikimedia.org auf wikimedia.ch umleiten

hi,

könntest du bitte ch.wikimedia.org auf http://wikimedia.ch umleiten anstatt auf http://www.wikimedia.ch?

--ThurnerRupert 06:27, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RSS extension copyright

Hi! I'm compiling extensions for a debian mediawiki extensions package. I'd like to include the rss agregator found at: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/ but it does not have a copyright statement... As you are the last user who commited it recently, I'm asking it to you: could you add a copyright statement in the php file, and if possible a licence considred as free for debian (gpl, bsd, etc...) Thanks by advance! My mail to answser: toots@rastageeks.org Toots5446 16:03, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Des O'Connor

Glad you sorted that out! It was on my to do list. The JPStalk to me 07:25, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mailing lists

I am no longer able to post to our mailing lists. I believe my email address fredbaud at ctelco.net has been blacklisted due to spamming by a vandal, probably the string "fredbaud". Could you check on this? Fred Bauder 15:16, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Where are my pages...?

Hi JeluF, I just saw several new Wikipedias were created, including one in Zeelandic. Great, but I can't find my articles anywhere, neither at incubator, nor at zea:. Where have they gone? ave they simply disappeared? I hope not... Regards, Steinbach (fka Caesarion) 18:50, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Excuse me, someone had erroneously changed the links at the Main Page without moving the pages, this why it seemed they had disappeared. Steinbach (fka Caesarion) 20:07, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cheops

Dear JeLuF,

Trying to find a special skin for my new wiki, I found Cheops of yours. I need toknow how I can install and enable this .css file as skin. Can you please guide me?

Regards,

Panagiotis Sidiropoulos

[edit] Image:Gamma-hydroxybutyrate.png listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Gamma-hydroxybutyrate.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in its not being deleted. Thank you. —Fritz Saalfeld (Talk) 17:12, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Nitrobenzol.png listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Nitrobenzol.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in its not being deleted. Thank you. —Fritz Saalfeld (Talk) 17:27, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Assistance with images.

Can you possibly get these images back? I am sorry about it, me getting these is crucial, I need them. They are:
Image:Moreblah1.gif, Image:Moreblah2.gif, Image:Moreblah3.gif, Image:Blah1.gif, Image:Blah2.gif, Image:Blah3.gif, Image:Moreblahblah2.gif, Image:Blah4.gif, Image:Blah5.gif, Image:Blah6.gif, Image:Blah7.gif, Image:Blah8.gif, Image:Blah9.gif, Image:Blah10.gif, Image:Blah11.gif, Image:Blah12.gif, Image:Lastblah.gif, and Image:Blah7.gif. --RedPooka 04:23, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

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