User talk:AstroNomer

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Thanks -- it's lovely to be on board here. --User:Riatsala.

Important note for all sysops: There is a bug in the administrative move feature that truncates the moved history and changes the edit times. Please do not use this feature until this bug is fixed. More information can be found in the talk of Brion VIBBER and maveric149. Thank you. --maveric149

Please do not delete entries that have only been listed on the Articles for deletion page for a few hours. Rather, if you concur, say so on the page. Wait at least a few days (a few weeks is perfectly fine) to delete pages. --The Cunctator

I'll check on the Golb thing -- it may take a day or so, though. Still, he's at the Oriental Institute at Chicago -- nothing to sniff at. JHK

Thanks for the clarification at talk:single lens reflex camera.  :-) --KQ



Re Santa Anna; no problem, AN. I only remember it because I grew up one town over from Santa Ana, California and had to be able to tell which was which. ;) --Brion



Thanks for the tip on the wikipedia: namespace page. --KQ



Re Patrick Adams: Twould be better if someone just edits it down to a non-copyright infringing form.


Heyya, Astro. I ran across Mass transfer, and noted that the astronomical usage wasn't covered there. However, I couldn't think how to phrase it properly for the purposes of the article. Could you check out talk:Mass transfer and make suggestions, improvements, or wholesale changes? -- April

Thanks!

Yves


I'll see if I can't garner a few opinions on the Astronomy and astrophysics opener! -- April



I think the sep11.wikipedia.org is just about right. There need to be clean redirects from the wikipedia.org urls for it to be good, but yes, the In Memoriam page isn't appropriate content permanently. --The Cunctator



Hi. I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one who objected to deleting posts and replacing them with a "user has plagiarized" message. I'm kind of new, so I'm not quite sure how things are done. I do know that a very large percentage of the stuff in an encyclopedia is not copyrightable (factual), and Jazz77's articles were no exception. I certainly don't have any objections to band members writing about their band. They should maybe keep the facts and their experiences/observations separate, but isn't there a place for first-hand articles, opinions, essays, that sort of thing? -- Stephen


Reply to your comment on User talk:Khendon, copied from there in case

you don't see it:


I know - but the redirect for Military technology and equipment was
already to Weapon, so I was trying to retain consistency. Weapon
has a list that includes things that aren't strictly speaking weapons,
anyway. - Khendon 13:49 Sep 26, 2002 (UTC)


Thanks for the birthday wishes! Arno

Somebody mentioned that you are fluent in Spanish. If this is true, I wonder if you might be interested in being the English Wikipedia Ambassador to Encyclopedia Libre? They seem to want to upgrade to Phase III and to get interlanguage links working but we do need a point of contact with that project. I would do this myself but my Spanish skills are not good enough to reasonably prevent yet another misunderstanding with that project. --mav



This is what my source (http://www.pantheon.org) says on the kachina article:


But in the mythic sense and ritual significance they are better conceived as spirits of the dead or departed. After the end of a good life, they go to the West, where the sun sets, and become kachinas, but there is no clear identity with the deceased and a specific kachina.


It's a reliable source, but I wouldn't trust it to be one-hundred percent accurate.



Happy Birthday! ( Did I inspire that Oct 1 entry??) User:Arno



¡Feliz Cumpleaños! --mav


An, thank you for commenting about my contributions and reading them. I have to admit that I didnt know how to write some of my first articles. But also , here is the problem: At first, I took this as a magazine and so, I wrote my articles like a magazine writer probably would. Take Carlos Monzon's page, for example, which you mentioned to Zoe. I thought I was being partial by publishing he was a great boxer, which, in fact, 90 percent of boxing fans would say he was because he had an excellent record, but also pointing out the fact that he had a history of violence, which is a fact because he was even accused and jailed for the murder of his wife.


But Ive realized my mistake and I know what you meant by saying that I was expressing an opinion with adjectives like great and excellent. As a matter of fact, in my latest entries, Im trying to stay clear of those.


Out of the 3 people who have critizized me, youre the one I like the most, because you did it in a constructive way.


The fact you have told me how to do my articles so that I can do a better job in the future, gives me a lot of respect towards you.


AntonioMartin


Dear An:

Hey! Thank you for praising my job about the Ernie Gonzalez page! I had no idea anyone had looked at it until I checked it today, (one month after you posted your messegae in it) and so I was glad to find out you liked my job there.


Dont you feel sometimes like an educator when you're working these pages? I do..I think if anyone can be benefitted from what I write and research about daily, (which is, mainly about boxing, air transportation and entertainment, cause I am not doctor material, LOL! ), well if anyon can be beneffited out of what I have to give, Im very, very happy. Dont you feel that way too?


Well, once again, thanks! Hope to hear from you again soon!!


Sincerely yours,

your friend

User:AntonioMartin


Dear An:

Hi! How are you? I have a problem with that photo I uploaded, apart that I need to put courtesy of Phillipe Bleus near it cause he requested me to, I meant to upload it into the Aeroflot page, but I have no idea how to do that. On the other hand, I was told I need some equipment to make it in JPeg. The fact it is on a page by itself is an accident, since I meant to send it to the Aeroflot article and I dont know what happened. But anyways, Ill have to see either if anyone here knows how to do that or if I can find out by myself.


Anyways it was as always, great to hear from you. Id say Pleasing but I like using happier words than that, LOL. So it was great to hear from you again! Im glad to be working in a website where people like you and me put our stone to make this a great world thru educating.


Thanks for everything, and God Bless!! Hope to hear from you soon!!


Sincerely yours,

User:AntonioMartin


An: Please take a look at my response to Roadrunner's regarding typical solids as degenerate matter. Initially I shared your gut feeling, but a couple of minutes thought persuaded me that the explanation that I have added to the talk page is a worthwhile explanation of a legitimate misunderstanding and therefore potentially worth transfering to the main page. Maybe in the long run we need a mutually cross linked pair of articles Bose-Einstein condensate (already exists) and Degenerate Fermi gas. Alan Peakall 12:45 Nov 7, 2002 (UTC)

Actually, I just stepped away from any TourBus duties. I'll drop a note to "BusManagement", though. -- Stephen Gilbert 00:22 Nov 23, 2002 (UTC)


Hi, thanks for your note. I long ago gave up on Lir -- around the time Ed Poor suggested I treat her as I would my daughter. It was actualy about a week before I realized she had been banned. I do think there should be plenty of work and development done on the Wealth of Nations article, it is a shame that she created a roadblock... Slrubenstein



I got rid of the 'Optimism.jpg', looks like another fix I did may have introduced a bug with the image deletion code. I'll look into that. --Brion 19:11 Dec 19, 2002 (UTC)

Just a note to thank you for your help with Durham. regards, Nevilley 09:22 Dec 24, 2002 (UTC)



Perhaps you could take a look:



Richard Kamann and Marcello Truzzi is a detailed account of internal events at 

CSICOP over the course of the Gauquelin 'Mars Effect' fiasco.


I put this in External links Astrology. have suggested that the entry be refactored to show Psuedoscience hiddenpipe



Hi, here is another article in Spanish: Dulce Patria, recibe los votos. Please leave me a note as soon as I can delete it. -- JeLuF


If I deleted anything that you wrote, it was by accident and I apologize. If you look at the talk page for the article in question prior to my deletion, you will see that a HUGE section of the discussion was repeted. All I wanted to do was delete that repeated section -- and I thought that was all I had deleted. PLEASE go back to that section and restore your comment, and again, I am sorry, Slrubenstein


I left you an e-mail. Please, would you accept my apologies if I offended you ? Anthere

Interesting site, thanks. Unfortunately, I probably don't read enough to add much there.  :-( Koyaanis Qatsi

Thanks for acting on General relativity, I will be bolder in future :-). Was the guess that I expressed about the relation of GR to mass energy conservation correct or a case of over-generalising? -- Alan Peakall 18:25 Feb 20, 2003 (UTC)


Hi Astro. I hope you don't mind but I have removed your redirect from the 'Republic of Japan' page and proposed the page for deletion. I know we don't normally delete redirect but in this case the name of the page is so misleading in claiming Japan is a republic that it may confuse students using Wiki into thinking Japan is a republic. (I know if they read the Japan page they would know it is a constitutional monarchy, but as all ex-students know, sometimes pages aren't read through fully. I'd hate some kid to lose marks because some vandal had originally created a site with a misleading name. Is that OK with you? JTD 20:33 Feb 20, 2003 (UTC)


excellent. BTW how do you delete pages or is that something that only the 'higher powers' can do? <G.> JTD 21:25 Feb 20, 2003 (UTC)

I'm sorry to see that you are leaving us AN - but I understand. My Wikipedia habit is difficlut to control too - hopefully it isn't consuming too much of my time. You will be missed. --mav

Dear An: Glad to see you back! Yeah ive been doing a little bit in the Espanol wikipedia. I love Espanol and Ingles the same, but I write here more cause of the demographics, of course.

I dont know if Ill go to Espanol much , except for a nick here and there. But who knows LOL

Anyways thanks for your message and God bless you.

Sincerely yours, Antonio El Fuego del Amor Martin

Re. Pinochet: you're quite right. I will find a more suitable location for that material. -- Viajero 20:42, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

You may want to take a look at what I've done over at m:Silesia. Pakaran. 06:00, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

With all your work on astronomy-related pages, I thought you might be interested in contributing to Wikipedia:WikiProject Telescopes. It's mostly one-sided currently (me), and I'd like feedback if you've the time and inclination. If not, no worries.  :) --zandperl 02:15, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Dear Astrojet: Hi! Thanks for your message. As for Astrojet, I couldnt resist myself: Dont worry, the Astrojet were very famous airplanes used by American Airlines during the 1960s and 1970s, to counteract Eastern Airlines' Whisperliners. The Astrojet was so famous and fad, that some American airplanes were repainted as Astrojets recently.

About Dr. Wilfredo Santa. I dont claim to know every Puerto Rican who is famous, and who can? Angelo Cruz was super famous for the shot he hit in a 1983 BSN game that gave his team the championship, but I doubt anyone in the new generations there know him at all. Anyways, ironically, me being originally from the island, I never heard anything from this Dr. Santa. I do know a Dr Iris LA Santa, my mother's personal doctor back in the day, but I dont think she's worthy of an article...lol

So, well if he was famous then the article could be legit, kept and all the other whatevers. Unfortunately, I dont know much about this person. I receive El Vocero daily, and Ive never even read news about him there. On the other hands, from what I read here, he's written books, so time will tell, maybe soon he will be worthy of an article. I guess when I call my family back there Ill ask them if hes on tv or something.

Thanks for your message, and God bless you!

Sincerely yours, your friend, Antonio High Flier Martin

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[edit] Dubai pic

The owner of the website where the Dubai pic came from granted us permission to use it. WhisperToMe 04:16, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Dictators, elections and revolution

Hi Ed. about Pinochet again. The article insist that he was dictator of Chile. Ok...i went to Fidel Castro and found "ruler". Changed to dictator, for consistency, but was reverted by a user claiming he was "elected"... what do you think of it? If "election" is the rule, Pinochet was elected for the 1981-1989 term by the mayority of voters that approved the constitution in which the transitory articles gave him that term.

There's been a long-running controversy (I mean, in the real world outside of Wikipedia) about whether any people have ever "voted for" Communism or any other form of dictatorship. Advocates of democracy and admirers of the US version of it, insists that no one ever would vote to give up their rights to a dictator. Advocates of socialism, opponents of democracy and enemies of the US provide what they claim are counterexamples: Castro, Hitler, Allende, Aristide.

I don't know enough history to evaluate these claims, but my dialogue with other Wikipedians has stimulated me to start doing some research. It looks like, at best, some of these leaders DID win an election somehow, but on false pretenses. They said one thing and did another. Which is why people generally wanted to overthrow them, as soon as they found out.

Opponents of democracy use the tricky argument that to overthrow "a democratically elected leader" is anti-democratic and hypocritical. Supporters of democracy should shut up and leave Haiti and Chile alone. But they forget one thing: "governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government" (US Declaration of Independence). --Uncle Ed 14:00, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Augusto Pinochet

I have create a poll at talk:Augusto Pinochet on how to describe the CIA's role in the coup against Allende. Please vote and/or comment. --Uncle Ed 14:20, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Licences

Thanks for the advice re Image:StXavier.jpg - I've always been vague about that, but I'll try to get it right in future. seglea 01:50, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Centripetal force

Hi, I'd appreciate some input on my comments on Talk:Centripetal force, wouldn't want to edit away because I'm sure I'd raise the Wikipedia physicists gang against me. :-) --Gutza 22:09, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Pinochet

Sure, I understand that whether or not I'm happy with the intro isn't the main issue. I just thought that since we were having some disagreement about how it should be worded earlier, I should make it clear that I was fine with how it is now. Cadr

[edit] de:Brauner Zwerg

Thanks, nice to hear you like it. But there are still some parts missing like the interior and the distribution and abundance of Black Dwarfs - I'm trying to add them the next days. It's not easy to get good information on this topic.

Maybe there's someone else who can translate it, I sometimes translated articles or parts of articles from en, it would be nice to give something in return. If you need help in unterstanding phrases just ask, I'd be glad to help you. -- srb 10:02, 19. Mai 2004 (CEST)

[edit] Pinochet

In case you're around, you should know 172 is scheming like crazy on the Augusto Pinochet page. He's putting notes on all his buddies' pages trying to pull them into the fray and smearing those who oppose him. It's a mess, and we need all the voices of sanity we can get. VV 12:15, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the note on my Talk page pointing out that issue with the new text. (My rewrite was intended to just make it more concise.) Perhaps you'd like to make proposed edits to the sandbox, which is somewhat more stable, if you want to avoid getting reverted by 172. Anyway, the page was unprotected by Ed Poor, not me; I don't know why he did it, since I didn't talk to him about it, but since he did it's an opportunity to get back to work. VV 21:05, 21 May 2004 (UTC)

Actually, it didn't get protected in "the wrong version". 172 reverted it after it was protected. He may not have done it deliberately, as it was before Raul put up the protection notice. Still, weeks of haggling and 172 won't budge at all. VV 01:46, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Answer of Baloo_rch

Gracias por tu comentarios. En cuanto a Carrera, alucinar con el sistema federal fue precisamente el cargo que se imputó. Así, tal cual aparece en los datos del centro estudios históricos jm carrera, uno de los lugares en los que me basé para obtener datos precisos al momento de realizar la biografía. Baloo rch 00:50, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)

¿qué otros articulos relacionado con chile has encontrado? (una de las tareas que trato de hacer es tratar de vincularlos y revisarlos, mira que alguien ya habia matado a Lucho Gatica) Baloo rch 01:23, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Bot

Well, I regret that setting the bot status is too late, but the request was made less than 24 hours ago on the request for permission on meta (precisely one hour and a half before I set the status). I think we could not make it be more speedy than this. In any case, I do not think we could have made it a week ago without knowing it was requested :-) Cheer up, maybe he will come back know that he has a bot... ant


Is it you who left a word on my talk page on meta ? Yes, the page exists, and I trust Jorge; I put the comment on es, to ensure everyone would be aware of the new status, and could complain if needed... ant

[edit] Talk:Bombing of Dresden in World War II

If you are interested please vote in the straw poll

[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] RFC pages on VfD

Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:20, 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 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] Talk:Bombing of Dresden in World War II

There is a straw poll taking place about the introduction to Bombing of Dresden in World War II if you are interested please vote. Philip Baird Shearer 23:37, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Coyote_Arizona.jpg

I was going through some images, on the image tagging project and came across this one. Its already been tagged, but still an amazing picture! How did you manage to take that! Good work. --MaxPower 19:09, 2004 Dec 17 (UTC)

Hiya

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AVillage_pump_%28miscellaneous%29#Retrospective

Anthere 05:56, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Catalan Wikipedia

Hello. I am searching the first editions on Catalan Wikipedia. In a old copy of the history of the Home Page appears the user AstroNomer. It seems to be the first registered user. Could you explain me something about the creation of the new wikipedia? How do you knew it? --Vriullop 11:07, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm likewise curious how you first came across the early wikipedia, and what made you decide to be involved with the editing here? Mathmo Talk 12:48, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] --AN Anonymous or AstroNomer?

I moved 'AN' to 'AN (disambiguation)' and thus had to update some links to avoid double redirecting. To my surprise I often encountered on talk pages: --[[:AN|AN]] while on one page I also finally found who this genuine pain in the *** might have been, since that page also contained --[[User:AstroNomer|AN]]. If you have nothing to do with the first AN who often occurs on talk pages for articles about astronomy, my hubble apologies. Else, would you mind to lookup --[[:AN|AN]] and (now) --[[AN (disambiguation)|AN]] that had to replace a few --[[AN]] and replace your signature with --[[User:AstroNomer|AN]], please. So far, users ended up and after my changes continue to end up on this instead of your user page. — SomeHuman 17 Sep 2006 12:46 (UTC)

[edit] Astronomy

Xizes 19:03, 2 November 2006 (UTC)Hey. D'ya like astronomy?19:03, 2 November 2006 (UTC)19:03, 2 November 2006 (UTC)19:03, 2 November 2006 (UTC)19:03, 2 November 2006 (UTC)19:03, 2 November 2006 (UTC)Xizes

[edit] Survey Q

Have you ever been to the southern hemisphere? Respond here Deadline for entries is December 15th, PST. AstroBoy 03:27, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chilean edits

Hello, AstroNomer, since you have made several edits to articles about Chile, you may be interested in looking at the Wikipedia:Chile-related regional notice board to pick up on other topics that need attention, or to express needs which you perceive pertaining to Chile. JAXHERE | Talk 01:24, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Classification of admins

Hi AstroNomer. Please consider adding your admin username to the growing list at Classification of admins. Best! -- Jreferee t/c 23:05, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] hi and a question

Hi, nice to meet you. I saw that you created Ultimate (sport). If you had any interest, I was thinking about starting an ultimate Frisbee wikiproject. Thanks. Me what do u want? Your Hancock Please 20:22, 5 April 2008 (UTC)