User talk:Pascal666

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[edit] Broken links

Pascal, I usually do use "What links here" to fix breaks caused by moves, but thanks for the reminder. Can you clue me in to which move I did that I didn't fix? Thanks! - UtherSRG 14:20, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Jesse James

I moved Jesse James back to that title. In accordance with our disambiguation standards, I put the other at Jesse G. James. It is important to keep the most important subject at the simplest title to allow natural linking. Rmhermen 18:23, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Edit attribution

Hi, Pascal. The edits from your IP have now been reattributed to you. Regards — Kate Turner | Talk 04:04, 2004 Sep 5 (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] NPOV Edits

Point well taken about NPOV edits. However, this is not the case with the Donald Trump article. The sentence "While most easily recognized by his horrendous comb over" cannot be considered factual or NPOV in its current form. Furthermore, it is not in encyclopedic style (see Wikipedia:Avoid weasel terms). While a citation from an opinion survey on the quality of Trump's combover might ameliorate this, it is not necessary given that Trump's photo with full combover appears immediately to the right.

Likewise with "That is one of the main differences between Fred and Donald Trump – Donald has no interest in affordable housing or for that matter in the outer boroughs." No quote from Trump backing this assertion up is provided nor are other differences between Fred and Donald given so as to provide context to the "main differences" claim. In addition, Trump's interest in "affordable housing" is not particularly germane in "Background." Most importantly, it seems to contradict the statement "Trump...initially concentrated on his father's preferred field of middle class rental housing" in the "Career" section.

Both of these statements are stylistically lacking and are peripheral to the article. The combover is obvious from the photo and Trump's primary interest in high end real estate is patently obvious in the "Career" section...

LuiKhuntek 09:48, 13 September 2005 (UTC)



How about something like "Due to his outspokeness and media exposure, he is an easily recognizable public figure whose distinctive comb over is the subject of humor by comedians such as David Letterman." ?

This might fit immediately after this sentence: "Trump is often known as "A Schoolboy's Dream" and "A Competitor's Challenge", as he is rarely afraid of defining the ways of a prolific American business executive, and thus became an example of one. "

LuiKhuntek 04:41, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Village pump edits

Hi. Could you explain why you're removing text from the top of the Wikipedia:Village pump subpages? I've reverted these edits until you can explain what your intent was. Thanks.--Sean Black (talk) 08:36, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Text was moved to the template. --Pascal666 08:38, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Using EDIT SUMMARIES would have prevented this confusion. --Golbez 08:41, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Yes, sorry, wanted to get all the pages done before anyone complained about the duplicate text. Didn't occur to me the opposite could be a problem. Sorry. --Pascal666 08:42, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Okay then. Please remember to use informative edit summaries in the future. Thanks.--Sean Black (talk) 09:14, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VfD for Gape shot

I have nominated Gape shot, the proposed deletion of which you apparently opposed by removing the Proposed deletion notice, for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gape shot. I explain in the nomination why, even with the list of "Movies containing this fetish" and the "See also" link to Goatse.cx, the article is still not appropriate for inclusion in an encyclopedia. If you removed the Proposed deletion tag in error, please state that at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gape shot. —Centrx→Talk 04:26, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Use of {{stub}} is no longer recommended

Hello,

Thank you for your stub submission. You may wish to note that it is preferable to use a stub template from Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types instead of using simply {{stub}}, if you can.

Thanks! -- Where 03:34, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV tag

You recently put a NPOV tag on Healthcare in Venezuela. Could you please explain your NPOV claim on the talk page for the article.--Bkwillwm 05:40, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Oops, I see that you just changed the tag to template form. I thought you added the tag originally. If you support the NPOV claim, please explain why on the talk page. If you just were changing the tag format, sorry for bothering you.--Bkwillwm 05:47, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
Just fixing it so it would show up in the NPOV category and could eventually be fixed. I have not even read the article. --Pascal666 06:06, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your edit to National University of Singapore

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[edit] Hapshash and the Coloured Coat

Years on their own are not normally wikilinked unless there is a specific reason. [[June 22]], [[1966]] is correct, or just [[June 22]] or just 1966. The reason for wikilinking dates as shown is that user preferences interpret them to display in the date format of their choice. Tyrenius 03:38, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The German solution

I've reverted all of your edits changing {{User GUS UBX to}} to hard redirects on userboxes. The order you claim in the edit summaries isn't the actual order as used by WP:GUS. You say that the template is only placed on after all incoming transclusions have been resolved ... that's not true, when that happens, the userbox is actually deleted. This template is placed on the userboxes as soon as it is userfied, thus notifying users that they need to update their pages. --Cyde Weys 13:22, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Please read the usage docs on the template itself. My edit summary is simply a direct quote. --Pascal666 13:27, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Ah, looks like it was wrong. I've fixed it. --Cyde Weys 13:29, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sort keys on Chinese names

Please be careful -- articles about Chinese people on Wikipedia often have the surname goes first, as per Chinese convention. Thanks. --Nlu (talk) 04:23, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

{{{key}}} is not a valid sort key. I have changed it to reflect the article name however. --Pascal666 12:55, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cheers

Thanks for your note. I've deleted the category stuff from the articles I copied and created a couple of subpages (may not have done that quite right, because someone has now "put them in the right place" for me).qp10qp 15:09, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

You forgot the "User:" prefix when you created the pages. Also, you don't actually have to remove the categories, just comment them out with "<!--" and "-->" before and after. Thanks! --Pascal666 15:20, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
I had tried to create subpages when I first joined Wikipedia but I failed because the advice on this same page you gave me a link to, under "How do I create a user subpage?", is extremely unintuitive, in my opinion. It goes:

Get assistance at WP:UPH. To create a user subpage, like a personal sandbox, you can:

That lost me; and no mention of the word "user". I might write a simplified version of that one day, for simpletons like me. qp10qp 16:10, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Snottygobble/Templates/Person

Interesting template. Unfortunately it is showing up in the categories Category:Year of birth missing and Category:Year of death missing. As it is quite complex (you appear to be something of a template expert) I did not want to touch it. Would appreciate it if you could edit it so that it will stay out of the main namespace categories. Thanks! --Pascal666 14:44, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Just something I sometimes use to start biography articles in my sandbox, to ensure I don't forget forgettable things like PersonData. I've bracketted the template with includeonly tags; that appears to have solved the problem. Thanks for pointing that out. Snottygobble 23:55, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
You're welcome; I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
I don't think it can be done. As far as I know, MediaWiki doesn't offer any string parsing functions. Snottygobble 04:02, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Some redirects you proposed for deletion

Hi, I noticed that you put the Prod (proposed deletion) tag on 5 or so redirect articles. The Prod tag is not supposed to be used for redirects, instead redirects should be nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion. I'm not going to remove the Prod tags, but there's a good chance someone else will do so. --Xyzzyplugh 18:47, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Double redirects

Please be careful in the future when changing an article to a redirect that you are not creating a double redirect like you did at Saint Andrew's Cross. I have fixed them all for you this time. --Pascal666 01:56, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for taking care of the collateral damage. I often would take care of only a couple double redirects – if any – because manually correcting double redirects, especially for articles with many of them (like Saint Andrew's Cross) could be quite tedious. Now that I see AWB takes care of double redirects (I'm sure I knew that at one point), I'll make sure I use that in the future when performing a move. Nevertheless, thanks again. -- tariqabjotu 02:44, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re : Shibaricon

Userified, done. :) - Mailer Diablo 20:01, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re. Edit summaries

Hello Pascal. Thank you for wishing me a happy birthday. Well, I believe that the counter only deems as edit summary those where you did add an actual summary. Those references to the edited sections (which are automatically inserted), such as "(→Controversy, criticism, lawsuits, and taxes)" might not be taken into account, thus the 85%. I'm not certain if that's the reason, but likely it is. So, always add some brief info on summaries. Regards.--Húsönd 19:33, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to VandalProof! 1.3

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Pascal666! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page and please note this is VP 1.3 not 1.2.2 see this for the approved list. Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 06:45, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] lowercase vs. wrongtitle

Thanks for changing {{wrongtitle}} to {{lowercase}} on f2f. (I knew I'd seen that template somewhere but couldn't remember it, so I used the more generic one.) I'll remember it now! —Serein 19:35, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your 'fact' tag on the ISBN article

Hello Pascal666. What are you questioning with the 'fact' tag? It is evident that the check digit is correct in both cases (easily confirmed by isbn.org/converterpub.asp). The check digits happen to 'coincide' (though I don't know why the previous editor felt that was significant). It is also evident that clicking on each ISBN at the appropriate bookstore leads to the cited book. What more do you need? EdJohnston 23:59, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

The sentence "The check digit happens to coincide." If I was the publisher, I would have intentionally found a pair of matching ISBNs, including check digit. They may indeed just happen to coincide, but Wikipedia requires proof. Stating the fact that they coincide is one thing, stating they happen to coincide is quite another. Unless a source is found stating that they just happen to coincide, language along the lines of "and chooses to use the same item number including the check digit" would be more neutral. --Pascal666 04:32, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Your point is that the publisher went to some extra trouble to select (from within his allotted ISBN range) a book number that would happen to give the same check digit in the two cases? The check digit formula is of course not under the publisher's control. EdJohnston 04:50, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
It would be trivial for the publisher two find two ISBNs that match. If they went to the trouble of finding a three digit match, why not four? They own all ISBNs that start with 038796 and 354096. Think how easy it would be to calculate the checksum for every ISBN in those ranges (1000 in each) and find two that match. Although, I just did it myself, and found something peculiar. Turns out the check digit for every isbn in those two ranges match. --Pascal666 05:06, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Elementary modulo arithmetic my dear Pascal. Rich Farmbrough, 23:57 9 January 2007 (GMT).
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