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[edit] Welcome

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Happy editing, Isomorphic 19:14, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Talk:Music of the United States

See Talk:Music of the United States Tuf-Kat 06:30, May 2, 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Augusto_Pinochet#CIA_poll

FYI, User:VeryVerily is now claiming that you had no role in editing or contributing to the page, visibly no understanding of the issues, and were voting ideologically [1].

So, I guess that renders your comments irrelevant- or maybe not. 172 09:32, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

Yes, and ironically this second time I was really a "random buddy" "brought in" by 172...Marcika 04:17, May 20, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Fokker 70, apparently in Hungarian

Could you have a look at Fokker 70, apparently in Hungarian, and tell us if it is worth doing anything at all with? If it's any good, we should copy it to the Hungarian-language Wikipedia & also translate the article to English; a quick glance makes me wonder, though, if only because of the punctuation in the latter part. You are the only person who has signed up fro translating Hungarian to English.

When you work out what's going on, could you drop a note at Wikipedia:Pages_needing_translation_into_English#Jun_18? Thanks in advance. -- Jmabel 19:15, Jun 20, 2004 (UTC)

It was hungarian, but gibberish - I made a new stub instead - Marcika

[edit] So Very Tired

Thank you very much for moving that page from XIV to XII. I can't believe any one else remembered that. *Chuckle* Good luck, and good day.Peace Profound! --Merovingian✍Talk 13:51, Jun 30, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Dirk Gently

The index to Dirk Gently is now available at: wikisource:The_Ultra-Complete_Index_to_Dirk_Gently's_Holistic_Detective_Agency. Enjoy. (And feel free to work on it!) JesseW 14:52, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] The Humungous Image Tagging Project

Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

[edit] Thank you for helping clean up Wiki Syntax

Just a quick note to say thank you for your help with fixing Wiki Syntax. Also, that problem listed with Trinification is my fault, due to a bug in the software (it's replacing "\m" with a newline, when what I really wanted for was the special Mac newlines, which are ctrl-m, to be replaced with newlines!). Doh! - I'll get it fixed for the next run. All the best, -- Nickj 05:43, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[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 2000 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)

[edit] speedy delete

Hi. I just deleted some of the articles marked as CSD by you. If you want to give the reason to delete the articles, you can use {{deletebecause}} template. Eg. {{deletebecause|patent nonsense}}. Keep up the good work. utcursch | talk 05:51, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Swiss ball

Taxman wants to change the name of this article to Exercise ball. Since you created the article, I thought you should have a say. Please reply on the talk page. GeorgeStepanek\talk

[edit] Good job, team!

Just wanted to let you know it was nice having a buddy to help get rid of that freakin' vandal. I didn't think much of it until about 15 minutes after I added the del tag it was back on RC. Boy was that a trip. Teamwork > all. :) Mo0[talk] 01:46, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Nichalp

Thanks for the Hungarian rendition of my name.  =Nichalp (talk • contribs)= 20:45, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation to join Wikiproject: Business world

Based on your interests and contibutions, I'd like to invite you to join Wikipedia:WikiProject Business world. Thanks in advance, --Leifern 19:23, 2005 Mar 31 (UTC)

[edit] Britannica Pages

Hi, thanks for your help on the Britannica pages. The idea, however, is not to link them, but to create redirects, so that if people use that term it will automatically redirect. This is done by typing #REDIRECT [[Name of article]]. Thanks. Danny 02:29, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I know how to make redirects, and I made them for the articles where I thought they made sense. I don't think it makes much sense to make redirect e.g. for The Royal Air Force or The Royal Navy, so I just linked them without the "The". - Marcika 02:37, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

We've been doing that for all the redirects for a very long time. The redirects serve as a precautionary measure, in case people put in the wrong words in links. Danny 02:39, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for explaining me the purpose of the redirects. However, I think it is highly unlikely that anybody would enter "The Old Pretender James Edward" into the Wikipedia search box instead of "James Edward" or that anybody would wikilink that term in an article. I thought the sense of the Wikipedia:2004_Encyclopedia_topics page was to make sure the articles exist and can be found in Wikipedia, not to create gratuitous redirects. - Marcika 02:51, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Actually, that is a good example. He is often known simply as "The Old Pretender." Similarly, in some of the other cases, the word "the" is part of the title. I prefer to err here on the side of caution. Danny 02:53, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wye Mills, etc.

I add what I know and others can take the ball and run with it if they wish.

[edit] Jeb Bush article

Marcika, thank you very much for correcting the spelling of that word and for adding space markings in the infobox. I appreciate your edits. Please do stop back and visit the page again when you have a chance. SummerFR 01:13, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] A request for translation

I am a contributor to the page Heim theory, and would like to determine whether the material from this website [2] would be useful for the article. If you scroll down to the middle of the page, there is a 6 by 6 square with lots of colours in it. The few paragraphs after that seem to be describing what the colours are supposed to mean. In your spare time, could you consider translating those passages, and placing your translation on Talk:Heim theory? Your efforts would be greatly appreciated! --HappyCamper 01:44, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Hello again - thank you for your translation :) HappyCamper 02:54, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Eine seltsame Anfrage...

Hallo Marcika,

eine Kollegin von mir sucht die Adresse einer ungarischen Kollegin, und eben... sie weiss ihren exakten Namen nicht mehr - und so findet sie auf www.matav.hu ihre Budapester Adresse auch nicht. Kennst du vielleicht die "richtige" Schreibweise vom Familiennamen "Hustiesz"? :-)

Machs gut und lieber Gruss, --Keimzelle 08:00, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Danke :-) --Keimzelle 15:49, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Spelling

You caught my spelling mistake on Heterodoxy, and for valiant editing in the face of my idiocy, I award you a partial indulgence!

Pax tecum! Essjay · talk 22:47, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] AD in years

Hi, I was just looking at the Treaty of Mersen article and noticed you added "AD" after all the years. Do you think that's really necessary? From what I've seen, I don't think other articles of this time period do the same -Lensovet 00:57, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

I thought that it would be better to include it at the time, as it less ambigous to include "AD" for years with less than four digits. But I don't have a strong preference and don't mind if you want to remove it again... -- Marcika 01:13, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vfd on Faithful module

I was wondering if you could consider changing your Delete vote on faithful module to Redirect, since it is indeed a valid math term as you pointed, and so the entry should not be killed but it should be converted to a link to R-module where the information is already present. drini ☎ 5 July 2005 19:01 (UTC)

[edit] Dramedy

If you had waited more than three minutes before reverting, you would have seen that I was making the main page Comedy-drama and making Dramedy a re-direct. "Dramedy" is not a term I've ever heard of, and doesn't seem to be used as much as "Comedy-drama". A quick Google gives 68,600 results for dramedy (including WP and mirror sites), 9,670,000 for comedy drama, and 586,000 for comedy-drama. All the other articles in the category use "comedy-drama" not "dramedy", so I thought the article and the category name should be changed, unless you disagree? JW 13:50, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

I reverted because I was suspicious about an edit that was from an anonymous IP and that was a copy&paste move (moving by copy&paste is discouraged as that does not preserve the edit history of the source page of the move). I don't really care either way about the naming, although I'd like to say that you should do your google search with quotes around compund names like "comedy drama", because you else you get all the pages where those two term occur anywhere on the page, not just next to each other.
If you want to move it again, go ahead, but I would be happier if you'd let an admin do a proper page move by nominating the pages on Wikipedia:Requested moves. (That would preserve the edit histories). -- Marcika 15:44, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
OK, fair enough. JW 12:04, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User catagorization

You were listed in the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Hungary page as living in or being associated with Hungary. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Hungary for instructions. JesseW 22:18, 8 August 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Would you please do a favor?

Greetings. I´m looking for Wikipedians who speak German to translate the few sentences in German in the article Anuschka Tischer. If you could help me out, I would be really thankful. Cheers from Brazil. Doidimais Brasil 21:28, August 27, 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Science pearls

Hello,

Since you contributed in the past to the publications’ lists, I thought that you might be interested in this new project. I’ll be glad if you will continue contributing. Thanks,APH 10:51, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pune

Image:WikiThanks.png Thank you for your contribution at Pune.
Please keep it up!!!- P R A D E E P Somani (talk)
Feel free to send me e-mail.

[edit] Award

For your very helpful work on the Indiana University Bloomington page, and all related pages, I award you this Barnstar. --YHoshua 00:04, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
For your very helpful work on the Indiana University Bloomington page, and all related pages, I award you this Barnstar. --YHoshua 00:04, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Naming conventions

Hello! I noticed your interest in the usage of names for Cluj-Napoca. You might be interested in Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions/Geographic names where there is a discussion about changing the naming rules. Olessi 16:55, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dan Quayle

You have rightfully removed Dan Quayle from the Indiana University Bloomington alumni section, but in doing so you inaccurately write that he attended "IUPUI Law school". This is inaccurate because no such school exists. Rather, Quayle attended Indiana University School of Law Indianapolis, which is on IUPUI's campus but technically independent of IUPUI.--YHoshua 19:53, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bundesland-level categories

Hello! I see you are listed in Category:Wikipedians in Germany. I have made subcategories for each Bundesland in case you would like to add yourself to the appropriate one. See Category:Wikipedians in Germany for a list of the subcategories (they use the English names, the same as their Wikipedia articles). --Angr (tɔk) 16:07, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OMO

Could you check the Open market operations article? There's a discussion involving gold and banknotes which seem anachronistic to me. (see that discussion page). Also I have a request out for somebody who knows something about how the Bank of England and ECB do it (rather than just the FED). Thanks in advance.Smallbones 14:17, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jacobs School of Music

I would credit its amount of awards to it being the largest conservatory in the nation (and the world?) not because of its quality. It's got quantity not quality.

I would consider the best conservatories in the nation to be Eastman, Oberlin Conservatory, Julliard, and the New England Conservatory of Music. IU definately is not up there. I'll look for some evidence to back this up but in the meantime what makes you consider IU as one of the best conservatories in the nation?

[edit] List of banned books

Your recent AWB assisted edit to this article changed childrens to children's in an external link, producing http://www.harperchildren's.com, which doesn't work. I'm just pointing it out so as you can check for it in the future. Thanks. --Cherry blossom tree 00:08, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up, I try to look at all of the spelling corrections in detail, but I missed that one... Anyway, I corrected the regular expression so that it won't pick up "childrens" in web addresses anymore. -- Marcika 00:15, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
No problem. I imagine it's difficult to catch every error when doing work like that. --Cherry blossom tree 00:20, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] battle of tours

Marcika I am sort of embarrassed not to have caught the misspelling of "siege" but thanks to you for catching it! We have worked really hard on that article to get it recognized as a first rate work, and your help was GREATLY appreciated! old windy bear 02:17, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summary

Hi. I've recently found a number of edit summaries on my watchlist starting with "AWB assisted ...".

Starting your edit summary with a link promoting some software makes it slower for me to scan my watchlist. It's also frustrating because I can't even run Windows software on my computer, so it feels a bit like you are spamming my watchlist (no offence intended). Would you mind setting your AWB software so that it doesn't add the promotional link to the edit summary, or at least so it puts it at the end, like "... using AWB"?

If you don't mind, would you also leave a note for the developers whether you agree with me or not, at talk:AutoWikiBrowser? Thanks, Michael Z. 2006-02-20 05:33 Z

[edit] Seeking translation to Hungarian

Hello, I am seeking someone with English & Hungarian fluency to translate the English article Maurice Ascalon into Hungarian for posting on the Hungary version of Wikipedia. He is a Hungarian-born artist (1913-2003), yet his article does not appear in the Hungary version. Would appreciate your assistance.

[edit] Bands (neck)

I saw that on neck bands had been deleted as a "copyvio", apparently because it duplicated text found on Geocities on what looks like the author's own site. I have asked that this decision be reviewed and that the article be restored at Wikipedia:Deletion review. You may want to chime in there and make sure we know the whole story. Smerdis of Tlön 21:57, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Indiana University disambiguation

I imagine this is a perennial subject, but after a rv war between myself and another user, the subject of changing Indiana University to redirect to Indiana University Bloomington has resurfaced here. Given your edits to the articles in question, I thought you might want to weigh in. Cheers! -- Merope 20:21, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Robert Prechter

Could you check out Robert Prechter and the associated Socionomics? Smallbones 19:51, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

I fear there is not much that I can help. If an individual like Folsom or an organization like his "Socionomics Institute" will gain a lot financiall by a favourable treatement in Wikipedia is pushing a positive POV, then no amount of arguments from disinterested Wikipedians short of an RfArb will stop him (for which I have neither the time nor the inclination at the moment). This is one of the fundamental weaknesses in WP. -- Marcika 14:01, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
Please do check out the RfA [[3]] If I understand correctly, contributing to the workshop exposes you to the possibility of sanctions, though I can't imagine how you'd be affected. I'm now in a semi-suspended state of internet access known as "vacation." Happy holidays. Smallbones 16:09, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hungarian translation help

Hi Marcika --

I've been working on a contentious article on Ignatz Lichtenstein, which is currently in deletion review. There's been an issue with WP:V because English sources about the gentleman are possibly just religious propaganda. I have scrabbled up a Hungarian source, a 1929 edition of Magyar Zsido Lexikon which mentions him but I'm not sure what it says. Could you take a look here under the Tapioszele heading (we know this is his supposed home village) and extract anything pertinent?

Thanks for any help you can lend.

-- Kendrick7talk 19:00, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Wow. I remained pessimistic until the end that this source would even help, let alone put the whole argument to bed. Thank you very much. If you ever need a hand with anything, I owe you one. -- Kendrick7talk 20:15, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sockpuppetry

How in the world are our usernames so similar?! ;) I'm wondering whether to put up a mock Template:Sockpuppet notice stating the obvious. :) —Mar·ka·ci 21:13, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Religiosity and intelligence

Hello Marcika. Thanks for putting your reasoning on the talk page of Religiosity and intelligence. I made a reply, which you might want to read. Regards, --OinkOink 00:28, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] More about Paul Erd[ő/ö/õ/o/...]s

Dear Mr. Marcika,

I have searched for the truly correct form, as in accordance to Hungarian Alphabet, as — more important — in obligatory deference to the mathematician ad causam. Most if Erdős is the correct, original written form — as you have pointed so conclusively.

Despite of this, I think I took a not well founded decision. Why? Because, simply because "all possible sources had not been explored yet — by me, of course".

However, I ask you some questions:

  1. Do you know sufficiently Hungarian Language — and, so, Hungarian Alphabet? I hope so!
  2. If no, have you reported to/seen sufficiently well accredited source(s)?

Dear and zealous Mr. Marcika, if I am simply wrong, as you have said — and you, in accordance, naturally right! — then your reverting action seemed to be more than necessary: it was, in fact, an obligatory one.

The following website The Hungarian Alphabet shows the complete Hungarian Alphabet (with all phonetic issues). More: our notable Wikipedia, at Hungarian Language article does the same. However, since at ‘’wiki’’-environment, knowledge is always changing to meet that final goal (will us arrive there?...), there remains some doubt with respect to the correct form. Most when referring to a name carrying letter/sign from a extended neo-latin new set. This claims to care.

  • On the other side, at the section "Collaborations", I have put all the names in alphabetical order. That intended to make that section much more quick and easy to consult, don't you agree? An others more... So...: Why have you reverted too?

Finally, for my yet deficient issues, may you excuse-me. For your — perhaps: I hope so!... — corrections, EgídioCampos thanks you very much. And Paul Erdős and Hungarian Culture too!

Best wiki-productions!

EgídioCampos, 2007.02.05, 13:55 UTC

[edit] Paul Erd[ő/ö/õ/o/...]s, once more: the final round!

Dear Mr. Marcika,

Thank you very much for your so promptly correspondence!

Yes, of course, the purpose of this — mine, yours et alii — issues is more and more optimization of Knowledge at Wikipedian Corpus.

So, I am very glad you — a native Hungarian speaker — have had a "piece of time", say a "Erdős quantum time" (who knows?...) for learning to a "Erdős number new mathematician [Lim x (x approaching to ∞)]" (I am this mathematician...).

Once more, I wish to thank you. And, now, I can say "Hungarian Culture" was honoured.

Best wiki-salutations!

EgídioCampos, 2007.02.05, 20:50 UTC.

[edit] Shorosh again

Dear Marcika,

I took your name in vain on the George Soros talk page. Actually quoted you as an expert. There seems to be some chance now to fix up this article to FA status, or maybe just GRADE A biography, with out the usual SPAs interupting.

AS far as the Robert Prechter RfA [4], it's still on hold after 1.5 months. I've got no idea what's happening with that or why. Socionomics has been deleted. Elliott wave is undergoing contested editing with some outsiders involved - it doesn't seem to be worth the effort - but somehow it seems like Wikipedia must ultimately go down the tubes if somebody like User:Rgfolsom can just push and yell until he gets everybody to quit. Smallbones 20:39, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Paul Erdős: alphabetization criteria et cœtera...

Dear Mr. Marcika,

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Why am I writing to you? For the sake of a so prestimous providence: Can you talk to Mr. Rubin, about optimization criteria at Paul Erdős article? I have provided the best (I think so) collaboration there, but he has refused it!... What can you do about — if possible, naturally? Newly, I must to thank you very meuch for all! EgídioCampos.

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I have wrote the following, as at User:Arthur Rubin discussion page, as at Paul Erdős article discussion...
Mr. RUBIN,
Respectable Wiki-Editor,
Of your user page...:
  1. This user is a relatively famous Wikipedian: Arthur Rubin;
  2. Note: I didn't write that, but I don't feel comfortable taking it out. — Arthur Rubin | (talk).
  • My note about this: I dont know you, but that words seemed to express a sincere feeling. I hope his/her maybe quite correct!
Let us go to the goal...
Honourable Mr. Rubin,
I think I have understood why you have reverted the alphabetization I have proposed for two or three times at Paul Erdős article.
In fact — last time — , you have commented the revertions as follows:
  1. 01:19 7 february 2007 (Revert failed alphabetization AGAIN)
  1. 01:21 7 february 2007 (Let's try this sort, if yoy want to alphabetize)
If you appreciate [FAMILY NAME, FIRST NAME] form (Nothing against it. I do appreciate this too!...), then, accordingly, at "COLABORATIONS" TOPIC, it must appear, for example:
  1. * Alavi, Yousef;
  2. * Bollobas, Bela;
  3. * (and so the following..., until Wrinkler, Peter, naturally, the last)
And, so, this "in fact"-alphabetized set would make sense: to provide quick and easy seeking, don't you agree?
On the other side — but under the same theme — why revertion done at "EXTERNAL LINKS" TOPIC? I really do not understand it. If Wikipedia Policies & Rules prescribe it in such manner, please, can you report it to me?
As you have seen — I think so — I am not an "anglo-culture native user", but a foreign ("alien" or "stranger"...) one, from Brasil. But I, naturally, want to obey or conform to the "Anglophone-Wikipedia home rules", not conform to mine.
So, my zealous wiki-editor... Can you answer me these questions, and solve these doubts?
Finally, can you post your answer to these questions on my discussion page?
Best wiki-salutations!
EgídioCampos, 2007.02.07, 14:20 UTC.

Best wiki-salutations, Mr. Marcika!

EgídioCampos, 2007.02.07, 14:45 UTC.

[edit] Translation help?

Hi! I found your name on the translators list, and was wondering if you'd be able to help a bit with my attempt to expand Golubac fortress. I found this page, and I'm hoping it has some new information. All the boxes have several links too, though, and I don't have the foggiest idea what they are, though I'm guessing they're ads or something, since they're to a completely different website. If they're not, and there's actually more info in them, could you summarize what they're about, and I'll let you know which ones would be most useful to actually get all the details? (Or, if you feel like translating the whole thing, that would work too!) Thanks! -Bbik 21:50, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

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