User talk:Yardcock

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Hi there. Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like it here and stick around. Thanks for your note on the new user log.

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Happy editing, Isomorphic 04:31, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

The Brian Roberts page looks terrific. You've been paid accordingly (and I added your initialization amount, too -- everyone gets 20 wikis for just being a part of the community, pretty cool, huh?) -- Matty j 02:57, Apr 12, 2004 (UTC)

Regarding Welteislehre. Simply being false is not enough reason to call something a pseudoscience. That would at least take some persistence in its defence after contradictory evidence has been presented. In Hörbiger's time the means for proving or disproving the theory were not available. The claim that something is a pseudoscience (usually BTW written in one word in English), is the positive assertion that needs evidence. How does one distinguish between pseudoscience and what is merely an unporoven or unproveable theory? Many theories have been put forth over the centuries, and were eventually dropped when required by the evidence.

Most of us who object to the characterization of something as pseudoscience, do not go so far as to claim that the practice or study in question is a valid one. Eclecticology 21:16, 2004 Apr 14 (UTC)

[edit] Germans

I've for long (a year, actually) been itched by the way Wikipedia-links are done with often sloppy distinctions between nationality, citizenship and ethnicity (with regard to persons) and also between nations and countries. This is particularly obvious in the case of people or entities that are denoted as German. A link to the Federal Republic of Germany is often outright unhistorical and wrong, but this has until now been the most usual.

That's why I'm considering an article on Germans, which I've started at the temporary location User:Ruhrjung/Germans. I would wish to avoid too much of edit wars after having started to link to the article. In particular, I would not wish to see the current disputes over German-Polish matters automatically extend also to this article, why I kindly ask you for comments now, in advance, in order to try to find wordings acceptable to as many as possible of concerned wikipedians.

I look forward to your comments at User talk:Ruhrjung/Germans.
--Ruhrjung 00:14, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Vocabulary Project

Hi there, since I saw you registered as a translator I would like to know if you are interested in this. I have written a program for learning vocabulary. It is based on the belief that it is best to learn foreign words by learning typical sentences. I currently have files in English, French (with sound), Spanish, and Portuguese, Catalan is in the planning. The program can also be used for learning other stuff that works with the question/answer scheme, e.g. the theory for the driving licence or anatomy. It also uses images and sound files for alternation and in order to work on the pronunciation. If you are interested please check my page and let me know. Get-back-world-respect 00:50, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Images for deletion

See my message to you at images for deletion --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 21:47, 2004 Jun 30 (UTC)

Deleted the BMP image, upon explanation --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 22:05, 2004 Jun 30 (UTC)

[edit] Your user name

Could you please explain your user name? We have a policy against offensive user names, and I'm just trying to get clear what your name is supposed to mean. Thanks. Rick K 05:14, Jul 30, 2004 (UTC)

OK, thanks for replying. Don't be surprised if others ask, though. :) Rick K 06:30, Jul 30, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] vfd

Hi there. It seems like you have a quick hand in putting articles up for vfd. Just to remind you, articles can be edited and you could put up a message like {{NPOV}} and {{cleanup}}. I am sure people are just as willing to 'help out' an article then, as they are when you put it on vfd. Yardcock 19:45, Jul 30, 2004 (UTC)

I'm not sure what article you are referring to. If you are responding to my summaries that say "Not a candidate for speedy deletion - please list on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion if appropriate" then you are looking at the message I use when someone has listed an article for speedy deletion when it is not a valid candidate. Occassionally, I will move that article to VfD because I can see that the request has merit but it still does not qualify for speedy deletion. Does that help? - Tεx τ urε 19:51, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I am referring to several messages on your talk pages in general and the article on Mary Cheney in particular. The 'lack of NPOV' was an honest mistake by a serious wikipedia member and the article was not supposed to be an advertising.

Point out specific items on my talk page if you wish to discuss them. Mary Cheney has improved over the original. It was originally phrased as an advertisement solely supporting the one site and not addressing the individual for that person's own merit. I do not agree with rewarding any article focused on a single web site rather than the topic of the article. In my opinion, it is still not an article about Mary Cheney but rather an article about this one position she has taken that the site is against. If it remains I hope it will improve. - Tεx τ urε 20:24, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi. Please see my latest post on Talk:2004 European Football Championship Mintguy (T) 18:54, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] EU medal count

As I keep saying, the count is invalid because the EU is not competing as a country, and therefore they have more participants than would be allowed if they competed as a single team. Rick K 22:15, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)

right! It is good argument. But I very like that page and see it useful. :)

Dear Yardcock I fully accept your proper remark about Template:2004_Summer_Olympics_medal_count , but please dont call me vandal! :) Liso 22:08, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Just because the article acknowledges that the count is bogus, doesn't mean it shouldn't be deleted. Rick K 22:30, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] re:Baseball Project

Sure, I'll take a look at it and see what I can contribute. Thanks for showing me. - Mattingly23 21:47, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Obrigada pelos parabéns! Muriel

[edit] re: Happy Birthday.

Thanks!! :-) --Saint-Paddy 01:11, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks also. Hyacinth 19:06, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Robert Lindsay

I've noticed that you recently moved the content from Robert Lindsay to Robert Lindsay (actor) to make room for a disambiguation page. While it is acceptable to move pages, it is generally frowned upon to do so through copy and pasting, as it doesn't retain the page history (see Renaming (moving) a page). In the future, please move pages using the move function located at the top of the page, and then change the resulting redirect to a disambiguation page afterward. Thanks. - MattTM 02:00, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)

I would have done so. However the original page included information about all three individuals. So rather than moving it to one particular article, I split it up in three different articles. If there is a better way to do that, please advise. [[User:Yardcock|Yardcock | talk]] 06:55, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)

In situations such as that, it would probably be best to keep the edit history with whichever section of the article has the most text (the actor part), and move with rest manually with a note in the edit summary of the new locations. I'm not sure if there's a solid rule on this, but it's how I would do it. Take care. - MattTM 07:20, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Cities in Sweden

Hello! Nice work with the Cities in Sweden. The main reason why very few cities are listed there, or are alternatively listed, is that cities does not exist as separate administrative entities in Sweden. Currently all articles with "city names" are stubs for municipality articles and as such listed in that category. One sollution could be to separate municipalities and cities into different articles, but before that happens we might contend ourself with the fact that name of category is properly formatted. Cheers. -- Mic 21:04, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the move, I had probably made some blunder (opened the list of municipalities and memorized it was the full list of cities). Now thanks to your help, we are done with the "Cities of ..." series --French Tourist 21:17, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:U.S. Southern Wikipedians' notice board

Hey! I've created this new notice board specifically for articles related to people from the U.S. South. If you are interested in contributing, leave a message on the page and add articles you feel need to be reviewed, contributed to, or started. Mike H 21:09, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)

Obrigada pelos parabéns! Muriel G 07:24, 6 Oct 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:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

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:

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:

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] Unverified image

Thanks for uploading the image

Image:University of South Carolina Horseshoe.JPG

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the image and I'll tag it for you. Thanks, Kbh3rd 01:11, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Greetings

A page that you joined to help with associate with other members of the Wikipedia community is on VfD. Please see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Wikipedian citizens of the world, and the related page Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Wikipedian supporters of the sovereign nation-state. Cognition 10:22, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball players

Howdy! I'm contacting you because your name is listed as a participant in Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball players. The project seems to be dormant, but I'm interested in starting it up again. I've worked on a new infobox template (see it in action here) and have many ideas for increasing Wikipedia's coverage of MLB players. If you're interested, please leave a note at the project's talk page. Thanks! AиDя01D TALK EMAIL 22:22, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/European Union member states at the 2004 Summer Olympics

You might be interestd to have a look. Regards --Pgreenfinch 12:43, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User categorization

Greetings! Your user page hasn't been vandalized :-) --it was updated to use the new User Categorization scheme. I have categorized your User Page as a Wikipedian in South Carolina (Category:Wikipedians in South Carolina) since your name was listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/South Carolina page. The Wikipedia:Wikipedians/South Carolina page is scheduled for deletion. Thanks! Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist} 01:31, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Belated Birthday

Happy Birthday!
Here's a tasty Birthday cake. Best wishes to you! Hope you enjoy your day. Now, get on out there and have some fun! ;)

--Jen Moakler 15:35, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] World Citizen userbox, {{User:1ne/Userboxes/User world}}

Hi, I noticed the message saying you're a World Citizen, I would like to invite you to add {{User:1ne/Userboxes/User world}} to your user page if you wish to proclaim it in a more effective way, and this template will also add you automatically to the Wikipedians with World Citizenship category. :) --Mistress Selina Kyle 23:54, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Germany is being replaced by a category

Hello! You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Germany page as living in or being associated with Germany. 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, or one of the Bundesland-based subcategories, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Germany for instructions. --Angr (tɔk) 15:37, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Eurovision

Hello, mate, I see that you are interested in Eurovision. Would you like to be involved in connecting with more eurovision wikipedians to do up the eurovision pages in a more coherent manner? I have come across the Eurovision wikiproject page, which seems to have been dormant for over two years. It may be an idea to have a look there and see how we could improve the eurovision coverage. I have done up the Congratulations (Eurovision) page so far and put notes about it on the pages of those who performed there. Best regards from Australia, Blnguyen 06:42, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

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