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Hi,

I renamed your account as requested on Wikipedia:Changing_username. If there are any problems, please drop me a note. -- JeLuF 20:15, Jul 4, 2004 (UTC)

Many thanks! —Austin Hair 03:03, Jul 6, 2004 (UTC)

Nice re-writing on the new Zoroastrian paragraph on Chinese adherents. Good job! --Menchi 01:38, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

And thank you, in turn, for your contribution on the topic—I wasn't previously aware of the extent of Zoroastrianism's influence in China, and it makes the article less Persia-centric. Austin Hair 01:42, Jul 17, 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Secular humanism

Please see the manual of style — the correct capitalisation for secular humanism was at secular humanism, not Secular Humanism, which probably ought to be a redirect though. Only an admin can move it back. Dunc_Harris|☺ 19:26, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I did, in fact, consult the MoS, which reflects the common English capitalization rules I complied with—Secular Humanism is a proper noun phrase referring to a religious/philosophical movement, and is capitalized as such in the text of the relevant articles themselves. This is analagous to "catholic" (the Church as a universal entity) but "Roman Catholic" (the body of churches presided over by the Bishop of Rome). Austin Hair 23:38, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Analogue disc record

I'm moving my comment not yours.

I originally placed my comment in the wrong place and I positioned it where I originally intended which is after Graham's comment. If you look at the datestamps you will see that your comment was after mine. Mintguy (T) 09:55, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

In that case, the indentation should reflect that, don't you agree? Austin Hair 09:57, Aug 20, 2004 (UTC)
The indentation is in line with my earlier comment above that. If you want to change it go ahead. Mintguy (T)
I simply don't want it to appear as if I were replying to your comment, which I'm not, as one might be led to believe based on our threading conventions. Austin Hair 10:06, Aug 20, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Indentation

I can't find it at the moment but somewhere in the Wikipedia namespace, it is suggested that comments be added using using the following indentation style. Not that I follow this everytime of course (as above).

comment from A
comment from B
comment from C
comment from A
comment form B
comment from C
comment from A
comment from C
comment from D
comment form B
If you want to indent it further go ahead, but I don't think it looks like you are replying to me, when the sentence begins "I too disagree.." Mintguy (T) 10:09, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Cricket

Thank you for sorting out the cricket (sport) thing. You are officially my hero of the day. -- ALoan (Talk) 10:41, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I still haven't finished, but you're certainly welcome, and I thank you for the kind words. Austin Hair 10:52, Aug 20, 2004 (UTC)
Well, thank you again - I trust that you are not doing it all by hand? If so, I'll give you a gold star too! -- ALoan (Talk) 10:54, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I am, but it's not as painful as you might think—my browser (Lynx) and textarea editor (vi) make this relatively easy, if somewhat tedious, work. Austin Hair 11:01, Aug 20, 2004 (UTC)
[Sorry - I neglected to give you your gold star: here you are. I trust that a Soviet honour will not offend ;) -- ALoan (Talk) 01:34, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)]
Not if it's awarded in the spirit of irony, anyway! Much of the credit goes to Kate, who jumped in midway and fixed at least as many articles as I did, but I gratefully accept your acclaim. Austin Hair 07:48, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC)
Well, the thanks is sincere, but the star is somewhat ironic. As you have probably seen, I gave a gold star to Kate too - but thanks for your help too! -- ALoan (Talk) 09:27, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Analogue disc record

I notice that you've retained both of your votes for the runoff—an act which effectively cancels itself out, regardless of whether votes count for 1 or 0.5. Are you sure you can't be persuaded to hop off the fence? Austin Hair 16:02, Aug 22, 2004 (UTC)

My (peculiar) reason for wanting the votes counted as 0.5 is that I wanted my indifference to be recognized in to any statement of the final vote. To take an extreme example, if there were five people in favor of "Gramophone record", two in favor of "Record (audio)", and 10,000 who feel as I do, then I would want the final vote stated as 5005 to 5002 rather than 5 to 2. My reason for saying 0.5 votes per proposal is that I'm only entitled to one vote total.
Actually I'm sort of enjoying this. I don't think it really matters what the title is as long as everything else redirects to it, and I think it's amusing that there is so clearly no consensus. I refuse to Wikistress about it. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 16:15, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Oh, no Wikistress here, and in the end all that matters is that we finally ditch that crappy title. I'm pulling for the colloquial, dialect-neutral option, though. Austin Hair 16:32, Aug 22, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Anonymous comment on Village Pump

Hi Austin. I'm sorry that the comment you responded to was taken off. The user had placed pretty little messages like "Fuck off wanker admins" throughout the Village Pump, and it was only later that I realised my reversion of his or her edits had also removed a valid comment. I have restored it now. Sorry for the inconvenience. - Mark 05:44, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Support

Hey! Thanks for voting for me during my run for admin. No doubt I'll see you on IRC tonight and we can talk more then. Mike H 23:42, Sep 9, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for your support for my adminship, and your kind words. Jayjg 16:26, 14 Sep 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 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)