User talk:Theon

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This is my talk page, feel free to drop me a note here if you want me to reply asap, otherwise use the following subpages for common discussions that I'm currently having.

Hi Theon. I was hoping you might be able to help me figure out if someone is perpetrating a hoax on Wikipedia, and if we are perpetrating it to the world. Canadian Space Agency has a list of Canadian astronauts, including Daffyd Williams. Daffyd does not have a NASA biography. Then again, neither does Roberta Bondar. It looks like they don't have profiles of past international astronauts. A google search for "Daffyd Williams" astronaut [1] finds only Wikipedia mirrors and a single McGill University page mcgill_interview_handbook.doc that says that our friend Daffyd flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in April, 1998. Looking at List of space shuttle missions and cross-referencing with NASA's page, it looks like Columbia did not fly at this time. So why is the McGill Faculty of Medicine saying this guy was a mission specialist? I just want you to double check my info before I decide that this guy doesn't exist. moink


Does NASA quote metric values in their original data? It would be much better to get the values from NASA than having to do conversions. I would be happy to look it up if you could give me the page references. In any case, I thought NASA is supposed to be pushing metric now after the MCO disaster. Bobblewik

Thanks for the reference and the tilde tips. Bobblewik Bobblewik 16:22, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Your initiative in creating new articles is admirable, but please don't create pages with just an empty template - they say less than an actual article (It's a little misleading too, a blue link looks like it has information). If you want to make a new page, please provide some rudimentary info first. See Wikipedia:Stub article. Thanks! :) Dysprosia 22:09, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Just had a thought - would it be good if the Previous mission / Next mission table was made part of the table to the right? I think that would look better, but it would be a heck of a lot of effort to change them all, sadly... thoughts? Evercat 22:10, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Well, I did what I envisage it looking like... Evercat 23:08, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

OK, my mistake. The text does need cleaning up though, it can't just be left as it was pasted and copied from another website. -- Graham :) | Talk 22:10, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Would it be possible for you to construct a boilerplate to put onto articles that you create from that source, stating what the copyright status is? It would help allay confusion with other users in the future. -- Graham :) | Talk 02:12, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I am not sure I am comfortable listing the various shuttle missions as complete on the Wikipedia:Wikiproject Space Missions page as none of them have a mission parameters section and a number have the navigation bar in the wrong place (although that appears to be Evercat's change) If you want to change the template please discuss it at the project with the other project members. Rmhermen 18:08, Mar 30, 2004 (UTC)

According to the template:

Mass: (mass) Perigee/Perilune/etc.: (perigee) Apogee/Apolune/etc.: (apogee) Inclination: (inclination) Period: (period) should go in the Parameters section not the box (although orbits does go in box) Rmhermen 18:17, Mar 30, 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] wikification

Please take the time to wikify all the new articles you've been posting. We can't keep up with you :) Kingturtle 05:27, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] YOU ARE ANOTHER NAMELESS FACE

WITHOUT EVEN AN EMAIL ADDRESS so what should I take seriously? YOU REQUEST FOR PUBLICATION REFERENCES REGARDING DEISM (and your don't even have an email address) IS REDICULIOUS WHEN THE AUTHORITY IS THE ONE SPEAKING YES "WE ARE ALL EQUAL! JUST SOME MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS", YEAH BUKUNIN SOKRATIS POTEMKIN WRITE IN A PUBLISHED BOOK FIRST BEFORE WE HEAR YOU -FU" Andrew Zito

[edit] Airboxes

Hey noticed your link for the air-box. Intially it was just going to be for actual aircraft pages, but its expanded, and Im worried its getting to large in scope. When I put years in avation, that even seemed a strech. Iv been mulling over a more general one with that has more links like aviation history, etc. for all the more non-technical pages- what do you think of this? Maybe we could work on one for space stuff as well (like rockets, missions, etc?). Greyengine5 16:43, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)


[edit] page layout

Theon, thanks for the (polite) warning on page layout I have referred the discussion to the page layout page you suggested. --BozMo 17:38, 11 May 2004 (UTC) however you may need to get that page to talk to this one WikiPedia:WikiProject_Leaders_by_year which seems to imply page layout changes aswell--BozMo 17:49, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Image repository

Hi, I just learned about your start of an image repository (Wikipedia:List of images). Independently of you, I have also started one, with a slightly different idea in mind (Images in Wikipedia). My idea is to include essentially all images in wikipedia, and to have a set of hierarchical galleries that lead from very broad categories to finer categories. I would like to invite you to talk about how this is best done, where to put these articles, and how to incorporate them with your article Wikipedia:List of images. See also the discussion on Talk:Images in Wikipedia. Wilke 01:18, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Dog images

Noticed your formatting cleanup in Wikipedia:List of images/Dogs; thanks. But I'm wondering why you're moving them out of alphabetical order? Even though it makes maintenance a bit more hairy (change rows every time more photos are added), I think alpha order is ultimately more useful, no? (See also its talk page.) Elf | Talk 16:56, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Edward Gibson

Hi. I've just entered some basic corrections in Edward Gibson. Please note: the title phrase or title word should be highlighted at its first appearance, like this, and one should use complete sentences. The latter is something in the article that still needs work. Michael Hardy 22:16, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Spaceship Earth

Hi. Speedy deletion requests can be handled in two ways. You can add {{delete}} to the article or you can list the article on Wikipedia:Speedy deletions. Speedy deletion candidates should not be added to Wikipedia:Votes for deletion. Thanks for looking out for the vandals and such. - Tεxτurε 20:42, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Year 3

Hi. Do you have any reference to back up this edit? anthony 警告 00:18, 29 Nov 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 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)

[edit] Image tagging

Hi! Thanks for uploading Image:CayleyGlider.jpg. It currently does not have a copyright tag on it. If you know the copyright information, could you please supply it on the image page? If you need help please feel free to contact me. Thanks! --[[User:Whosyourjudas|Whosyourjudas\talk]] 03:59, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

Have you looked at any of the these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_magazines#Political_Magazines ? MSTCrow 07:21, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Years Survey

Hi. To get everybody thinking, I've created a survey about Year pages here. I'm telling all the participants of WikiProject Years and everyone else who has shown an interest or participated in the discussion. If you could check it out it would be appreciated, and tell anyone you think may be interested.Trevor macinnis 03:13, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Justice.jpg

Love your photo of DOJ! Massysett 04:10, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Sts-45-crew.GIF listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Sts-45-crew.GIF, 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. Fritz Saalfeld (Talk) 11:04, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image tagging for Image:Srb_16.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Srb_16.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the source and creator of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. If you don't indicate the source and creator of the image on the image's description page, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided source information for them as well.

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