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[edit] Newspaper links

Ha, just saw your edit summary after you'd made some links to newspaper articles! I actually have nothing against linking to newspapers - just that I sometimes lack the time to check whether the ones in the column actually have an article, and unlike in a normal article in the main namespace I like my news articles for the Signpost not to be too splattered with distracting redlinks. Daily Illini sounded particularly obscure to me, I was sure it wouldn't have an article, but then again I shouldn't be surprised at the coverage we achieve here! Worldtraveller 18:08, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

I hope it was clear I was being playful. Great article, by the way! dbenbenn | talk 18:20, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
Yep, it was clear and it made me chuckle. Thanks for doing the linking! Worldtraveller 23:26, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] FAC for ADS

Hello! I really liked your work on ADS, but on the FAC page I did have some objections. Just a heads-up, as I'd like to vote in support of the nomination. Thanks for the great article, and thanks for your time! --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 03:23, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Hi, thanks very much indeed for a very thorough reading of ADS and your detailed comments! I'll work through them today - I can see they will improve the article considerably once I've addressed them. Thanks! Worldtraveller 12:53, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Any news?

I was wondering if you're still going to rework the Signpost article your browser unfortunately ate. Right now we're looking at having a pretty small issue, so I've been waiting to put it up until I had it all complete. --Michael Snow 20:50, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Yes, sorry for the delay - I have been putting off re-writing what I lost, it's always really depressing doing that. But I'm just putting it together now and it will be finished very shortly - although the servers are being extremely uncooperative now, keep returning 'document is empty' when I hit save. Worldtraveller 21:49, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
Having to do the same work over again is never fun, I understand. As for the servers, it looks like we got caught up in the side effects of one of the lead stories for next week's issue. Thanks for your consistent contributions to The Signpost. --Michael Snow 23:45, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] sun article - stellar fusion

I saw your changes to the sun article. I take it you have some issues with the stellar fusion model. Is this true? PJO 18:07:05, 2005-08-02 (UTC)

Gosh, no! What did I write that gave that impression? I'm not a stellar astrophysicist but as far as I am aware there is no realistic doubt that the Sun's energy comes from nuclear fusion.Worldtraveller 18:13, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

This is just one problem, but there are many others. The "solar neutrino problem":

These neutrinos can be detected on Earth using large underground detectors, and the flux measured to see if it agrees with theoretical calculations based upon our understanding of the workings of the Sun and the details of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. The measured flux is roughly one half of the flux expected from theory. The cause of the deficit is a mystery. Is our particle physics wrong? Is our model of the Solar interior wrong? [1]

You also mentioned one other problem in your changes, the heat problem. If internal fusion is responsible for the sun's heat, why is the chromosphere hotter than the photosphere? Thermodynamics says the surface, being closer to the source of the heat, would be hotter. PJO 18:24:45, 2005-08-02 (UTC)

The solar neutrino 'problem' demonstrated an incomplete understanding of neutrinos rather than of the solar interior. The temperature of a gas depends not just on its distance from a source of heat but other factors such as density variations, pressure etc so it's very much too simplistic to claim that 'thermodynamics says' the chromosphere should be cooler than the photosphere. Worldtraveller 15:35, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Signpost hiatus

As you might have seen, I've decided to suspend work on The Signpost for the time being. I really appreciate all the work you've done over the last several months and wish we had more people like you. Perhaps if there's enough support we'll be able to restart in the future, in which case you're welcome to pick up where you've left off. Anyway, thanks and it's been a pleasure working with you. --Michael Snow 15:38, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] CFD

Hello. Can you go here and express your opinion about those Ecuadoran volcanoes categories? Your opinion will be appreciated. -- Darwinek 17:53, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

Hello again. Can you go here and express your opinion about requested move of one Indonesian volcano (Mount Kerinchi to Mount Kerinci)? Your opinion will be appreciated, again. :) -- Darwinek 15:19, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi Darwinek, can't say I have any very strong opinion either way so I'll be happy with whatever the consensus reveals there. Thanks for letting me know about this and the above CfD! Worldtraveller 13:24, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Naming articles in "Exact solutions in general relativity" category

Hi, Worldtravler, EMS recommended that I ask you the following question:

I am trying to greatly improve/extend/reorganize the general relativity articles, categories, etc., and in particular plan to write articles on several dozen of the most valuable exact solutions to the Einstein field equation. In the talk page for the category called "Exact solutions in general relativity" (a subcategory of the category "General relativity"), I have listed by name articles I plan to write, such as "Robinson/Trautman null dust", "Neugebauer/Meinel dust", "Kerr/Newman/NUT/de Sitter electrovacuum", etc. The trouble is that I prefer names like "Kerr/Newman/NUT/de Sitter" rather than "Kerr-Newman-NUT-de Sitter", but the Wikiserver apparently interprets slashes as unix path names, which would be disastrous.

Any suggestions for a naming convention for articles in this category? For example, while "Kerr/Newman electrovacuum" appears to be an unaccepatible name for a Wikipedia article, would "Kerr:Newman:NUT:de Sitter electrovacuum" be acceptable instead of "Kerr-Newman-NUT-de Sitter electrovacuum"?

An article I already created, "Aichelburg/Sexl ultraboost" (see the category "Exact solutions in general relativity", not to be confused with an article by the same name) suffers from this problem, which is how I discovered it when I tried to link the biography of Peter C. Aichelburg to this article. Can you help me change the name of this article, or to link it properly?

TIA---CH (talk) 21:14, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi CH - Personally, I prefer the hyphenated forms for your proposed articles, but if you want to use slashes you shouldn't encounter any problems - in the Wikipedia namespace slashes are treated differently but in the main article space they are just another character, or should be. What actually happened when you tried to link to Aichelburg/Sexl ultraboost? See for example OS/2 which seems to work OK. Worldtraveller 13:24, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
I don't know what's happening. Just to complicate things, I already tried to rename it Aichelburg-Sexl ultraboost, but as of yesterday the new link was not working unless I use "Go" rather than "Search". The best thing would be if you try the original link Aichelburg/Sexl ultraboost and look at the article name and try to see why link isn't working. (I see they appear red in your page, and in other articles which are a week old I am unable to the link to blue, even though using "Go" I can confirm that the article exists.)
While I have your attention: in past few days I've been trying to get a lot done, but intermittently get "connection refused" for several tries in a row (with waits of several seconds between tries). Is that just me or is the server stressed?---CH (talk) 22:15, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
OK, I see what was happening - confusion was arising because of a spelling error, -berg vs -burg. I've created redirects so that searching for any combination of -berg or -burg and / or - you get redirected to Aichelburg-Sexl ultraboost, which I think is where you want the article to be. If there's any more problems with the various links to that, let me know!
As for server problems, it's been mostly fine for me, the occasional problem in the last few days but nothing major. A useful page that can give you an idea of whether the problems are at the Wikipedia end or your own end is this one. Worldtraveller 22:47, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
Silly, silly, silly me! :-/ Thanks much for the fixes. Just tried it and it's great. I've thought it over and because everyone but me will search under "Robinson-Trautman" instead of "Robinson/Trautman", I've decided to take your advice and go with the customary hyphenated convention. Thanks again!---CH (talk) 23:43, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Featured article guidlines for Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Astronomy

Since you seem the most active organizer of the portal I will ask you for comments about changing the featured article guidelines (said here:Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Astronomy/Featured) from any article that is astronomy related and was featured on the wikepedia main page, to any comprehensive article that is voted upon in the discussion page. Seems like a better idea →ubεr nεmo→ lóquï 06:28, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

Hi - I'd have no objection really, but my thinking was that the current supply of astronomy FAs is enough to supply us with monthly articles for the portal for a while yet, and any peer review on the portal page might not be as thorough as FAC is. But, it would be excellent to identify potentially featurable astronomy articles on the talk page, whether to appear on the portal itself or to then work up to Wikipedia-wide featured status. Good work on setting up several featured pictures recently by the way, I did about a month and a half's worth a while back and am still lacking the enthusiasm to do more than one or two at a time now. Worldtraveller 13:24, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
Thanks. Seems like the thing to do would be to review some articles come late August, and if turnout is enough to deem one article appropiate, it can be used, if not, a former article from the mainpage will do. →ubεr nεmo→ lóquï 15:52, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Southern Africa stubs

Hi Worldtraveller - I see you've been creating a lot of stubs on Zambia, Angola, Zimbabwe, etc. lately... can I ask you to add just one letter to any new ones you make? :) I should explain - {{Africa-geo-stub}} is for stub articles relating to African geography in general - {{AfricaS-geo-stub}} is for stub articles relating to areas below the southern border of the Congo DR (Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Swaziland, etc.). It just makes it a fraction easier for editors to find the articles to expand, and cuts down the stub-sorters' work a little, too! (There are also AfricaN, AfricaE, AfricaW, and AfricaC geo-stubs). Thanks - and keep up the good work! :) Grutness...wha? 12:09, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

PS - very interesting website! As to your Bacon and Erdos numbers, I have neither, but - using the unofficial music equivalent scale - I do have a Brian Eno number of three. Grutness...wha?

Hi Grutness - I was on a bit of a stub creation spree to eliminate redlinks from Zambezi, and didn't realise there was an AfricaS-geo-stub until I was finished. Will use it in future though, and thanks for changing the ones I'd done! Very cool to have an Eno number! I definitely don't have one of them, not yet anyway. I'll have to resuscitate my long-dormant musical career and get to work :) Worldtraveller 13:24, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Signpost - not dead yet!

I don't know if you've noticed, but the Signpost is continuing with a new editor, Ral315. Of course it won't be easy without Michael Snow, but if you want to carry on contributing then we could really use your help and experience. the wub "?/!" 18:28, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

I apologize that I didn't contact you before publishing; it was a spur-of-the-moment decision to publish it. I would sincerely like it if you helped out next week (assuming you'd still like to). ral315 21:31, August 15, 2005 (UTC)
Another comment real quick. I just wanted to make sure you're still interested in doing press coverage and citations for the upcoming issue; please leave a note on my talk page either way. ral315 20:01, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hubble Deep Field

Simply superb editing! Tony 14:22, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

And while we're a fan club: love your featured pic. HDF is just about ready for promotion, yes? Tony 00:58, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Congratulation on Hubble Deep Field's promotion to FA. That's some great work you did. Any plans to tackle Hubble Ultra Deep Field? I'd love to see it as a FA, but I know far too little about it to help it much. — Knowledge Seeker দ 15:26, September 3, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the congrats, Tony and Knowledge Seeker! It would definitely be nice to see the HUDF as an FA as well, although I will need to do some reading about it, don't know as much about it as I knew about the HDF. I'll put it on my list of articles to work on! Worldtraveller 18:34, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ashlee objections

What is your problem specifically with these? Your objection was just cut and pasted and doesn't point out any specific faults other than a pro-ashlee POV, but the POV on these have not been disputed for a while now.

If you could point out where your issues lie I'll fix them :). Ryan Norton T | @ | C 19:45, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Surtsey

Hello! Sorry to answer so late, I've been offline for a while, moving to Reykjavík for university. Unfortunately I didn't make it to Surtsey this summer, although I tried - there just weren't any expeditions, at least not to my knowledge. I did however manage to go to Suðurey, another island in the archipelagio, and got marooned there for five days... whee. The bad news about that trip was that my camera stopped working on our way out to the island... the view to Surtsey from there was awsome on the first and last days. I probably have a lot of photos that might work... I'll have to check when (and if) my computer arrives. You can contact me via e-mail at spm2(near)hi(dot)is or MSN at spm(near)vlug(dot)eyjar(dot)is and rush me.

--Smári McCarthy 18:17, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Shit.. the proxy returned errors, and I thought it hadn't submitted. Cleaned up! --Smári McCarthy 18:23, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] featured article lists

Hi - I noticed you changed a link on Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations. Looking into this a bit, I find that Hubble Space Telescope appears twice in the featured logs (June 2005, and December 2003, which by the magic of transclusion both refer to the June 2005 FAC). Since, in general, there's no guarantee that an article originally nominated by person A that ends up defeatured is not renominated later by person B, I think it would be fine to have two stars for the one article (and for you to have added a star for Hubble Deep Field). The original content of the list by wikipedians was generated automatically (ultimately from the logs). I'm intending to update it periodically (also automatically), perhaps monthly. Just thought I'd let you know why Hubble Space Telescope showed up twice. -- Rick Block (talk) 13:50, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Rick - thanks for the note. I see how the Hubble situation arose - somehow I was thinking that Hubble Deep Field had managed to get listed as a second Hubble Space Telescope when you generated the lists! Great work you've done on generating these lists - it's really interesting to see where all the FAs have come from. Disheartening too though, to see that Emsworth has done three times as many as anyone else :)
Incidentally, on IE the symbols show up as boxes for me, and using Mozilla they come out as question marks - wonder if it might make for a less browser-dependent page to use a small star graphic or something? Worldtraveller 11:49, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
Re the symbols - I thought about using an image but couldn't figure out a way to add an arbitrary wikilink to an image (easy in html, but as far as I can tell not possible with wikimarkup). I generally use a Mac and haven't looked at the page with anything else. I'll look around and see if I can find a unicode star that Windows knows how to display. Thanks for letting me know about this issue. -- Rick Block (talk) 15:32, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Merapi

Have you lived in Java? If so, you would not move it. I will try to revert your removal, and if possible find the ref. If you dont understand it, go to my talk. Suharto era 'movement' of people viz transmigration was a serious issue, the slopes of Merapi a good example. The people used to go back in every time they were removed. Also in the 1960's the remnant PKI people were rumoured to go hide in villages there. Wow no ref? you should see the one million wiki articles no refs, no NPOV, its a nightmare out there! vcxlor 01:09, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Looking closer, the "explanations" of the supposed 1006 eruption and its effects should be removed as well, as it is totally conjecture, regardless whether you have read all of van bemmellen's works or hinloopen labberton with a fine tooth comb. if one is to be 'scientific' about the javanese cultural landscape from extant records, everything from 1700 and back is very spurious.vcxlor 03:39, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

What I meant was that I don't see the importance of the fact that it was under Suharto's rule. Similar things happen all over the world, when you've got a volcano that's continuously active. In Ecuador, for example, the city of Baños was evacuated several years ago due to the eruptions of Tungurahua, but people drifted back over time despite ongoing activity and the red alert status. The link you suggested between the regime and the people ignoring evacuation orders was not clear.
As for sources, yes, there is no shortage of unsourced articles but that is a terrible reason not to cite sources wherever possible.Worldtraveller 10:14, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Autobiography FAC

World, could you give this another look when you have a chance? Me & Everyking have worked hard to resolve the objections here (and we think we have for the most part). I think we've reached a good comprimise. Thanks! Ryan Norton T | @ | C 22:15, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

World... come on. Aren't you going to at least comment? If you can't make a rational decision because of your dispute with everyking you should vote neutral. Seriously though... why not take a look at it and least comment? I know you're here because you're editing and posting to wikien-l :). Ryan Norton T | @ | C 18:47, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the nudge... will comment shortly, but it's a lengthy article and it takes a bit of psyching up before I can face going through it :) Worldtraveller 19:31, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

No problem. I did read all of the talk page archives for both ashlee simpson and the autobiography article. Lots of bad blood on both sides, I must say - LOL :). Ryan Norton T | @ | C 02:02, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] EK/Simpson

Ug... please try to not let him upset you. Threatning with an RfC/RfAr probably wasn't the best idea either. I think if we can focus on the articles here rather than getting into bitter disputes it would be better for everyone.

Not a threat - just wanted to make it clear that I won't tolerate his offensive attitude, and that responding in that way to constructive criticism could be seen as disruptive.
Yes, but I can certainly see how that could be taken as a threat. Personally, I'd just try to not let what he say bother you - he really just doesn't want the article to be turned into a stub. The length of it is one of my concerns also....
So who does he think wants to turn it into a stub? I don't think you need to be concerned about length; it's 27kb long. Compare with some of the articles I've steered through FAC: Lord Dufferin (25kb), Eldfell (20kb), Comet Hale-Bopp (18kb), Silverpit crater (13kb).

Now.... just some explanations:

  1. Why is the fact that she's apparently going to appear on Oprah notable at all, let alone notable enough to appear in the intro?....Her next tour is planned for the fall of 2005 - reads like promo material.
    • This is mainly because the intro has to be more than one paragraph and I'm unsure of what else to put there....
      • The intro seems a bit short now. Ideally it wants to be a concise summary of all the important info from the article. Three paragraphs is usually a pretty good length. See WP:LS.
    • Well, um, that's what I meant. Anyway, fair enough, I'll look into it.
  2. used a pre-recorded vocal track...led to accusations that she had lip synced: the former is the latter - this clearly seeks to tone down what happened.
    • Do you think just leaving out the lip synced part althougher and just mentioning the vocal track is better?
      • Using a pre-recorded vocal track is lip-synching. If you say there were 'accusations' of lip-synching, that clearly suggests that she might not have been. As the long as the article doesn't do that I wouldn't have a problem. I think the text in the main body of the article was unambiguous on this.
    • OK, thanks, I'll try to word it the same way the body does.
  3. The whole section offering opinions about why she got booed makes me cringe - as I said before, not our place to speculate, and it reads like a defensive fan article.
    • As with the above is it better just to leave all the opinions out of there and just say she was booed? It seems that would omit some stuff.
      • I'd simply say she was booed, yes. Reporting of opinions is really of no help to the reader. Unless there is a very good reason to think that the audience were booing not her but something else, then it reads like a fan piece trying to defend her.
    • I think that would make it a little short, but I'll see what I can do :).
  4. Around the time of the petition looks like an attempt to belittle the negative point about the petition.
    • Actually its a foolish attempt by me to connect the paragraph together, LOL
      • Similar point is offering her response to the petition as a quote though - again, it reads like a defensive fan piece. The petition being the most popular is an objective fact, her response to that is not.
    • OK, thanks.
  5. Set list from tour dates is not encyclopaedic in my opinion.
    • What's your suggestion for this?
      • Miss them out - even for my favourite bands I would not be interested to hear that 'they played songs from their latest album plus a couple of other ones'.
    • Well, I'll try to crunch it down...
  6. A point of writing style - there's a paragraph that contains stuff about her voice and then her worst-dressed accolade - a jarring non sequitur.
    • Good point...
  7. "I decided that I didn't want to talk about that because it's super personal," she said of the situation - that's extraneous, you can just give the reference to support the fact, and generally there are too many quotes from Simpson, they make it read like promo material.
    • Probably a good point too....

Ryan Norton T | @ | C 22:12, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

(I should mentioned I noted the album because I knew the main Ashlee Simpson page wasn't up to FA standards quite yet) Ryan Norton T | @ | C 22:42, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

I'll try and comment on the album article as well at some point. Worldtraveller 10:23, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Well, unfortunately the FAC failed, again. Would've preferred it while the FAC was going on, but nevertheless anytime soon is good also. EK still thinks you'll never sway from oppose, and I have my own doubts as well (there were also a couple of inactionable votes there too, but I suppose they can be tough to tell for someone who doesn't look somewhat closely at it).Ryan Norton T | @ | C 08:36, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

If my objections are addressed then of course I would support. Sorry for not getting round to commenting before the end of the FAC. Well done on all the work you've put in on this and thanks for following many of my suggestions; if you feel it's nearly there, you could ask Raul to extend the nomination period - he did so when I nominated Astrophysics Data System, gave it a couple of extra days which allowed me to resolve outstanding objections. Worldtraveller 09:21, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Music of Nigeria

Have I resolved any/all of the issues you brought up at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Music of Nigeria? I'd appreciate any further comments you might have. Thank you, Tuf-Kat 06:36, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Your post: Wrong, but thank you for trying to offer feedback -here's the link to verify my claims

People continue to post to my RfA -long after the powers that be tried to remove it, prompting me to wonder...

Anyhow, you may think that it's no big deal now that a few days have passed, but if we don't learn to correct our mistakes, they will keep popping up.

In that vein, while I'm sure you were well-intended, you missed the fact that I both followed policy, and got permission here from an Admin to repost my FA nomination.

When I had answered you initially, I failed to provide the link, because I was overwhelmed with other people making false accusations of me -yes, your accusation was false, but I'm not trying to offend you -merely point it out so you are careful in the future and to help you get along and avoid ill will. We want Wikipeida to make any users feel like they will be treated according to Policy -not just "made up rules," like sometimes happens.

Here's the most recent "permanent" link, which I think may be useful since people are afraid of a little criticism and may try to delete the page or lock it -again (it's been locked --as in "overkill.")

Thx for your feedback, even if you got it wrong on the first try.--GordonWatts 11:24, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

First of all, I wouldn't really say I accused you of anything - I just pointed out behaviour of yours that made me unwilling to support your RfA. Not getting adminship is not an indication that a user has done anything wrong.
I think you're not quite being truthful with your response on the RfA page. Raul removed your FA nomination because it was clearly going to fail, not by accident as you suggested, and you reverted his edit to restore it. Subsequent users re-removed it, and you reverted three more times, with one edit summary accusing Taxman of vandalism [2]. Whether the users removing it were admins or not is irrelevant, and Nichalp's note on your talk page should not be construed as any kind of 'permission' - adminship, as you have stated elsewhere in trying to make your case, is just a set of extra tools and does not grant any kind of power over other editors.
And finally, I think your RfA subpage was locked not to prevent discussion or because people were afraid of criticism, but to prevent you contravening policy by unilaterally extending your nomination period. Worldtraveller 12:09, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] {{FARCfailed}}

Just popped by to thank you for editing {{FARCfailed}} - had you spotted the comments on Giano or Bishonen's talk pages? -- ALoan (Talk) 11:36, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I'd noticed Giano's comments - they prompted me to go editing, as it did seem a bit strange to me to sort of invite further removal nominations.
By the way, I was about to drop you a note on another matter - thought as an ex-astronomer you might care to weigh in on a page-naming debate at Talk:Provisional designation of asteroids. Cheers - Worldtraveller 12:21, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Thankyou for that, I still can't say I'm wild about broken stars clutterinbg talk pages, but not a lot one can do there I suppose. Palazzo Pitti has still a long way to go before it is even able to be nominated. However, while Firenze to Florence I could just about manage, but I do not acknowledge that such a place as leghorn (note small letter) exists; as far as I am aware a leghorn is an obsolete breed of cattle, or perhaps at least a very nasty infection caused by promiscuity. Thanks anyway. Giano | talk 12:45, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
Seems odd to have a broken star on a page that's been judged to still meet FA standards, so I stuck its point back on. Who knows what insular anglophiles decided to take it upon themselves to call a place leghorn, but at least it's unheard of for anyone to call it that these days. Worldtraveller 13:39, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
  • What a blessed relief, especially as my latest cool page Giovanni Fattor was born in Livorno, I really don't think I could bring myself to call it, by the other name. Much better with the star back on, perhaps we could now think of some amusing forfeits for people who go about needlessly (IMO) nominating unsuspecting pages to FARC. Giano | talk 15:28, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User at 64.108.146.33 causing continued vandalism

Hi, as you have probably noticed User 64.108.146.33 is continuing to vandalise Wikipedia pages. I've just reverted another page they vandalised, but there may be more!

Rnt20 18:14, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] {{Dynamic navigation box}}

Hi Worldtraveller,

I fixed the Javascript so that the toggle link will appear on the side, not on top (You wondered about that on the mailing list). I tried that out in my own user js and css and it works on IE6 and Firefox - More testing would be good, of course. See my results at User:Grm wnr/DynNavBox. I you want, you can replace the present relevant MediaWiki:Monobook.js and MediaWiki:Monobook.css sections with those, they shouldwork. -- grm_wnr Esc 04:00, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi Grm wnr - excellent stuff! It's working well for me, I've tested it also on Mozilla 1.6 and IE 5.5, works fine on both of them. Thanks for doing that - I'll now see about putting the code into the common css and js files so that all skins can use them. Worldtraveller 22:38, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] World not travelled

Hi World-(not-travelled-to-India)-traveller! Any plans to visit India? I'm curious: what is the highest/lowest point you have been to, and the hottest/coldest temperatures you have experienced? Thanks User:Nichalp/sg 08:28, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Ah yes, one of the large gaps in my coverage of the world! Definitely plan to visit India one day, but South America, Mali and Ethiopia are currently ahead of it on my schedule. There will be a total solar eclipse visible from northern India on 22 July 2009, that could certainly encourage me to get over there.
As for my highest/lowest etc, yes, I am enough of a travel obsessive to keep a track of things like that! [3]. Should be going further south and also higher than ever before when I go to Patagonia in a few weeks time... Worldtraveller
Nice, I wish I could be a world traveller one day. You've beaten my temperature range by just 2°C though. (-10 to +45) :) User:Nichalp/sg 13:03, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
May I suggest the total solar eclipse on 22 July 2009, which goes through the centre of India. India (Benares, say) will see 4 to 5 minutes of total eclipse, shortly after dawn, but near Shanghai will have almost 6½ minutes of total eclipse (the longest duration of totality in the 21st century). Alternatively, the annular eclipse on 15 January 2010 clips southern India/northern Sri Lanka, with up to 10 minutes of annularity - see NASA's eclipse paths for solar eclipses to 2025: http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEatlas/SEatlas3/SE2001-25T-2.GIF total] and annular. -- ALoan (Talk) 19:32, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Problem user

Hi Worldtraveller, noticed you are active now...could I please ask you to institute a block for 48 hours on User:Elf-Masher? He has been warned against engaging in personal attacks, to which his response was [4] I'd do it myself, but this last bit of incivility is directed to me personally. It's a bit longer than a normal first time block, but E-M is virtually certainly a sock of a known serial problem user. Thanks for your assistance...Cheers, Fawcett5 12:27, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Template argument

You seem to feel that the purpose of a template in not to do what I've done in my "pop song" templates. I wish you would answer a few questions:

  1. What, pray tell, is the purpose of having templates? After all, they could all be replaced by copy-and-paste.
  2. What in your opinion is a valid way to use them?
  3. How does my usage differ from that?
BRG 18:12, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
No, I don't think that what you have used your template for is the purpose of them. There's some useful background at Wikipedia:Template namespace and Wikipedia:Template messages. In particular: Templates should not masquerade as article content in the main article namespace; instead, place the text directly into the article. As I said on the TFD page, to use your templates in the way you want to, they should be copied to your user space and, most importantly, substituted in rather than transcluded. That way, others can edit the articles you've created using them. Worldtraveller 18:27, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Main page question

I'd like to featured Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on the mian page, but I don't really see any images in that article that would be good for the main page. The only picture of the comment itself is Image:Shoemaker-Levy 9 on 1994-05-17.png, and it's really too inconsequential in that one. Can you add something? →Raul654 08:50, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletes

I might start participating in deleting articles... I'll re-read the criteria of course; but I wanted to find out how long do you wait after posting the speedy notice before deleting the article? - RoyBoy 800 16:05, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi Roy - I occasionally review Category:Candidates for speedy deletion when I feel like clearing out some rubbish, and I don't really take any notice of how long a speedy notice has been on an article. If it's genuinely a speedy candidate, the sooner the better really. If you mean how long would you wait to delete an article that you had put the speedy tag on, just delete and don't bother with the speedy tag, unless you want someone else to check it really is a speedy, in which case you can leave it, it will be deleted before too long by someone. Just remember in any case to check the page history - people have sometimes inadvertently deleted perfectly good articles that have just been vandalised! Worldtraveller 16:46, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Úbeda

Please see the discussion I've been having with Philip Baird Shearer at User talk:Curps#Ubeda -- Curps 16:08, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for that - it seems very clear to me it should be at Úbeda, no realistic argument against it and thousands of other articles have diacriticised titles. If there's a new RM at any time I'll support a move to Úbeda, but it seems to be a vote should not even be necessary. Worldtraveller 16:46, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] FAC

I raised on objection for your FAC. Please address them as soon as possible so I can change my vote and support it. Apart from the issues I mentioned I found the article quite informative. Keep up the good work! - Mgm|(talk) 08:33, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Aleksander Milikievich

Why did you delete my contribution there rather than incorporate it to some other article? The guy is notable and I must say that I spent quite some time researching his biography. It quite sad that all of my night work is lost just because there was a typo... Halibutt 12:06, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

The delete tag said the title was a typo and that all content was at Alaksandr Milinkievič. I thought there would be no real point having a redirect from a misspelling so I deleted it. I'm not questioning his notability and I certainly had no intention of wiping out good work - just wanted to keep the article at its proper title. I've looked into it more and it seems his surname definitely does have the 'n' in it. Shall I move it to that title? Worldtraveller 12:42, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
Actually it is a Very Good Thing to have redirects from commonly mis-spelled article titles. This is not an unusual practice on Wikipedia. Why wouldn't you want the spelling-challenged user to find the article? --Blainster 21:36, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Amazon River image shift

Yes, I should have known better-- though it looked fine on my screen, different users with different screen resolutions, different browsers, or even different window sizes, will see the layout differently. Still, it's hard not to want to make it look right on your screen. Happy editing! -- Mwanner | Talk 20:34, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations

I just popped my head in while on Wikibreak and saw one of your fantastic works on the main page. Congrats! --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 00:58, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks very much! I didn't realise it was on the main page until I got your message, it's good to see it up there. Your comments on its FAC helped a lot! Worldtraveller 11:19, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Portal talk:Warcraft

Could you please give us an explanation as to why you would want to see Portal:Warcraft merged with Portal:Computer and video games? Seeing as the portal is about so much more then the Warcraft computer games alone, it's about the actual Warcraft lore as well. Havok (T/C) 18:04, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

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