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[edit] X-Men (movie) -> X-Men (film)

If you move a page, aren't you supposed to update all the pages that are linked to the old page? Joeyconnick 16:28, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

Yeah I'm totally fine with the movie -> film move... I just thought it was maybe better form to reduce the number of redirects. They really need to have a bot that runs every now and then and cleans up redirects automatically (or at least semi-automatically). Thanks for your comments. Joeyconnick 16:36, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation to join Wikiprojects:Philosophy

I notice that you've edited a few philosophy articles. Have you considered joining the Wikipedia:WikiProject Philosophy? It is an effort to coordinate the work of Wikipedians who are knowledgeable about philosophy in an effort to improve the general quality and range of Wikipedia articles on philosophical topics. Banno 20:55, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

Unfortunately my knowledge of the field is rather modest and I have too many other commitments. -- Curps 22:07, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Answer

I don't know any such duke; I doubt however his name is correct. It seems like the article is vanity/fake however as it states: "Not mentioned by any medieval source, he first appears in one of the many fake (and much later) genealogies". Also, it states that he was founder of Lithuania, while in fact Mindaugas was. Also, it links to the Eldership of Samogitia, but afak the Eldership was established only later. Also, I don't know most of dukes it links to as to his family members. Maybe someone been too keen on it if he/she added articles based on "fake geneologies"? Because all nams for cities used were previously Belarusian, and same for names for many dukes (still however, that letter does not exist in Belarusian either I believe), maybe it is some kind of Belarusian mythology or such, I don't know DeirYassin 08:10, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

I guess Živinbudas, Gimbutas are other dukes; as their names you gave are also Slavic and they are quite different from the Slavic name for this duke; I might be wrong though. I can't read Polish unfortunately... Maybe you could ask User:Halibutt, or the users who added these articles? DeirYassin 09:22, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

It's not Polish at all. Only the references on the left are in Polish (at times in 16th century Polish and at times in almost classical 19th century - depends on whether the author quotes some source texts or simply notes his own remarks), while the central part seems like a perfect example of Old Ruthenian. Fortunately it's almost fully comprehensible for someone who speaks both Polish and Russian. I could give it a try and read it, but I'm afraid I won't have time to translate all of the text - it's simply too long.

In short, it's a genealogy. It relates the fate of several Roman nobles who first settled in Venice because of Attila, then sailed around France and Germany, stayed for a short time in Denmark and finally arrived toi the Nieman river, where they settled. Their leader, prince Palemon, had three sons: Bork, Kunos and Śpera or Spera. Kunos (since, I guess, you are interested in him the most) was the middle son and settled in the estuary of Niewiaż to Nieman, where he founded a town named after him (either Kunos or Kunosow). Both of his brothers died heirlessly and Kunos inherited their domains (called Żmodz in the text), with the town of Jurborg. He had two sons: Kiernus and Gimbut. So, the latter might be our Kgwinðbunt. Let me know should you need any more details.

BTW, regardless of whether the text is a legend, a fake or some mediaeval chronicle, it reads really great. Halibu tt 13:13, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hwllo!

Excuse me but I and my friends have been working on that Lisa Kushell article hard for a long time and I was the one who created it, check the edit history and discussion and please I would like to know why you are messing with it like that. I made that stub just for her too !!Wiki brah 07:28, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Look I'm not sure you relaize this but being Jewish is an ethnicity not just a religion. Even if your family converted to Catholicism and a lot of us did in Portugal and Spain in the Inquisition or got banished to South America (I'm Jewish from Brasil) you are Christian religion but still Jewish ethnically. I mean in Germany being Christian couldn't save you from the Nazis if they could show you had prior Jewish (ethnic) stock after all. Plus me and my friends worked on that article for a long time and it was just disappointing to see someone revert our work on it like that. thats all.Wiki brah 07:41, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] I see

Curps, I just changed it back. I got my 3 in for the day. I see you already did your three so its you that has to be aware I mean I might be autistic but i'm no retard after all. And I know that my first attempt at the article was improper (my friends explaining it to me) but we have been working on it all day to make it better my friend Lucky6.9 first changed it then I added a lot of more proper info then SuperDude also added his info too so please check the edit history in detail before you go around snapping at me like that pleaseWiki brah 07:51, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

I have replied on your talk page. I'm not sure what you consider "snapping" at you, we're having a civil conversation as far as I can see. -- Curps 07:57, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 3 times not 4

No I reverted it 3 times. you made the first "revert" at 7.22 (1 for you), I reverted you at 7.24 (1 for me), you reverted me at 7.31 (2 for you), I revered you at 7.42 (2 for me), then you reverted at 7.43 (3 for you) and I reverted last at 7.47. So we both have 3, I didnt do 4 i think you were counting my initial stub edit but that wasn't a revert i guess it was just a "vert" or something. Plus I know that my first start of the article wasn't very good but that had nothing to do with the stubb issue now. Maybe if after this settles down we can talk about changing the stub title to something more proper maybe? Like i' not trying to bug people i just see things a ibt different is all i am just trying to help out and use my artistic talents to bennefit the wikimedia.Wiki brah 08:00, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Well I am pretty brand new here so I dont know who would could the first edit as a revert I mean it doesn't make sense semantically of course there would be no "re" in the "revert" I took latin so I know revert means re(again)-versus(having changed) so you can't say the first change was a "revert" any way you cut it from a logical or linguistic view. Anyway I could have SuperDude revert your friend Calton 3 times then we'd be up all night arguing about this mierda so I think I'm gonna call it a anight watch some porn and get to bed. Talk to you later i'd love to discuss more stubs and categories with you like you know i'm new and am still learning a lot about wikkipedia eery day.Wiki brah 08:12, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] my talk page

Thanks for the revert on my talk page, that's another nice clusterfuck going on there. I've blocked Mike for six hours for removing other people's talk, I think this went way into "disrupting wikipedia" territory. --fvw * 00:07, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Who

Just wanted to let you know I unblocked User Who. He is most definitely NOT willy. --Kbdank71 18:55, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Sorry about that, it was careless of me. -- Curps 18:57, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] A Barnstar for You

I hereby award you the RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for your heroic efforts in repairing and repelling the Willy on Wheels vandal — Bratsche^{talk 5 pillars} (KC)

[edit] Apology

I apologize, I did not intentionally remove your comments, I reverted and didn't realize that you added stuff; I thought you just removed. My Bad. Ray Lopez 15:43, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] M. Laugier?

I read your article about M. Laugier, but I don't understand how she is significant in a way that merits inclusion in the Wikipedia. Steve Casburn 03:04, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Block

Points for enthusiasm, but slightly less so on the choice of target. Nice reaction speed though. --fvw * 07:21, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] sorry about that

Sorry, somehow my anti-willy pagemove block bot got you, even though all admins are supposed to be automatically excluded. My apologies. -- Curps 07:18, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Ah, so that's what it was. Cool, but you shouldn't be running it before getting Wikipedia:Bots approval though. --fvw * 07:25, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

→ (Removed duplicate discussion: see User talk:Fvw for this same discussion. Also see |Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Curps.27_block_bot): fvw objects to me running the block bot without discussing it on wikipedia:Bots first and has asked me to stop running it; I have declined).

[edit] Request

Curps, as one of the admins I trust, could I ask a request from you? Could you just take a brief look at the edit history of I am, the note I left on User:Sam Spade's talk page (which he has now removed, and is in the history), and his response on my talk page and on the mediation committee page? Thanks! I would just like a third opinion on this matter, because I was personally shocked at Sam Spade's reply. Your input is very much appreciated. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 16:19, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

I agree, Sam's conduct is over the line here and his responses to you are unjustified and verge on being personal attacks. -- Curps 16:28, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the response! I really don't wish to elevate this dispute, but I don't wish for his comments to damage my chances at WP:MC. Would you mind giving me your recommendations on what to do at this point? (perhaps file an RfC?) Thanks a lot! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 16:36, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply; it is appreciated very much. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 16:43, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] That one again

Ah, you noticed. LOL. Thanks. Antandrus (talk) 17:36, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Blocked because account compromised?????

Uh, Theresa Knott, you've got some explaining to do... -- Curps 23:09, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

~~I presume this refers to some untoward page moves attributed to this account (see Special:Contributions/Curps). — Dan | Talk 23:11, 3 September 2005 (UTC)~~

Whoops! Sorry about that! I acted in haste. Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 23:12, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

I think she mistook your moves from "X what sort of password is 123456 etc" back to where they belong, as indicating that it was your account that had been "hacked". Evercat 23:13, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Whoa, I made the same mistake. — Dan | Talk

No problem. All's well. -- Curps 23:14, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

LOL, heh, wow. Looks like fun times on the blocklist today. ;) Thanks for the heads up about BarneyBumble, you're probably right, blocking him is more important than allowing AOL to edit. ;) --Golbez 00:03, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WonderBread

Where have you been? Your bot didn't do anything this time. --cesarb 01:41, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sockpuppet of who?

I'm not a sock puppet of anybody. I have no idea who Irate is. The only reason I have been seen to have been impolite, uncivil etc is because all this has made me angry. I only started on Wikipedia I think about the last week of July to work on articles regarding mostly the London Underground. In recent weeks I have begun to branch out but since there have been several incidents with other users, I will now narrow down the range of articles I edit. Regarding the codes for deletions, I asked DavidH if he could provide me with any of the codes regarding deletion and he gave me a link to one page. Check further up my user talk page and you'll see that, click on the link he gave me and you'll be taken to the page with all deletion codes, including vfd, ifd, everything.

Let bygones be bygones?

Greaterlondoner

...and by the way, I answer polite inquiries politely. Impolite inquiries or constant bombardments are another matter.

[edit] Moveback bot?

Curps, I was thinking about writing a bot that could undo all of a user's page moves executed within a certain amount of time (say 5 minutes) so as to undo the damage created by Willy style page move vandalism. If I did write such a thing, it seems like a natural addition to your block bot (i.e. block and then undo all moves). Are you running the pywikipediabot framework (which is what I use and am familiar with)? If so, I might just write it, get it working, and ask you to tack it on to your own code as an additional step.

I probably am not going to do any work in this area this week, so if you decide to do it yourself, feel free. Dragons flight 21:48, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thank you. Glad we can move on. Shame we met under such bad circumstances. Greaterlondoner

[edit] Degania

Curps, I fixed the two Hebrew interwiki links as per your comments. What happened there is that since there are two Degania kibbutzes ("A" and "B"), links to both were provided. I changed it to link to the Hebrew disambig page where the user can pick one or the other. Not the cleanest solution, but should do for now. Owen× ☎ 16:38, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mašín and "spam filter"

What is the meaning of the edit [1]? The linked page is about the topic and is quite informative on the role the brothers indirectly play in today's politics and public opinion. Pavel Vozenilek 23:23, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Done per suggestion. Thanks. Pavel Vozenilek 00:34, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Thanks for the bot, I was hoping someone would develop something like it, it's brilliant. Since you must know a lot about programming I'm hoping you could answer my question (or direct me to a good place to ask). In the Dab's with links project it would be useful to be able to count the number of articles that link to a particular disambiguation page (ei, using "What link here"). How would it be possilbe to do this? (I hope that's clear, if not, ask me to explain it better).--Commander Keane 14:27, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

The pearl script requires you to download the database (29 gig I think) and then it counts the "What links here" for all disambiguation pages. I want to just count the What links here" for one article. I can do this manually but with some artciles having >500 it takes a long time. Can the python wikipediabot do this? Is it possilbe to get the "What links here" list for an article for all entries, instead of just the first 500? --Commander Keane 04:00, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

You have been very helpful so far, thanks. I'm not familiar with Pearl or Python, but I have written a script in Matlab (which uses Java) that can do the counting for me. However, I only want to count pages from the main namespace when doing "What links here". When doing Special/Contributions I can just use "&namespace=0". But this doesn't seem to work for "What links here". Why's that?--Commander Keane 14:27, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sonneries de la Rose⁺Croix

Please, what is "technically" wrong with Sonneries de la Rose⁺Croix? It is in no single guideline that the ⁺ sign is impossible or even discouraged for article names. Sonneries de la Rose_plus_Croix is not the name of any composition by Erik Satie. I'm not even shure it was a "plus" sign that was intended by the composer. If it were written Sonneries de la Rose†Croix, I would have chosen that way of writing it, but I'll make that a redirect too. --Francis Schonken 23:02, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

The thing is intringuing. I'm working on my windows machine now, indeed the "superscript +" sign is not visible. So you're right on not being a viable technical solution for the page name. I would like to see this in the guidelines somewhere. Maybe it is somewhere, and I didn't find it; maybe it needs to be inserted somewhere. Could you let me know where it is, or add it where it needs to be added? I'd be really grateful!

The really intriguing thing is that Satie probably wrote something like this (I'd like to see the manuscript or the first print, but I'm quite convinced it'd look something like this):

Sonneries de la Rose

Croix

So the "plus"-like thing is probably a cross (I used the image media:Cross templars.gif for the above which is cross and not plus - mark that also wikipedia has separate articles); what I'd like to check is whether Satie used a different color (a high chance he did) and whether the four ends of the sticks were broadened the way it is with the image (in that case it would definitely be a "cross" and not a "plus") - I'm nearly a 100% convinced that's what one would find. Satie was very much into medievalistic chivalry and the like when he composed this piece, and as it was Rosicrucian, "crux" (deriving into -crucean) means "cross".

I don't know whether you know the "RIZLA+" brand of cigarette paper? That's something similar: the enterpreneur who started that factory had Lacroix ("Thecross") as last name. Then he started making cigarette paper with rice paper, rice being "Riz" in French. The original imprint on this particular type of cigarette paper is something like:

RIZ LA

So, RIZ LA<CROIX>, and not RIZ LA<PLUS> (note that a few years ago they "officially" omitted the space between the RIZ and the LA, only then it became RIZLA+ - the last symbol still "croix"/"cross" and not "plus")

Nonetheless "Sonneries de la Rose_cross_Croix" would be at least as silly as wikipedia page name I suppose as "Sonneries de la Rose_plus_Croix".

In sum, I don't know what would be the "most ideal" solution.

Other things regarding the Satie composition:

I've found one (but only one) of my recordings of the piece that uses the † "dagger" symbol in the print on the sleeve;
I'm not sure about the spaces before and after the + sign: is it "Sonneries de la Rose+Croix" or "Sonneries de la Rose + Croix"? (did you already google-test that?)
I've heard radio speakers say "Sonneries de la Rose-plus-Croix", but as an exception, most say "Sonneries de la Rose-Croix", so there's not so much "evidence" to be found I suppose.

--Francis Schonken 08:47, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi Curps,

Thanks for the Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Unicode) (draft)-link (and subpages)! That was indeed what I was looking for, and I see a lot of work has gone into it. Note however (now I'm back on my Mandrake/Mozilla machine) that the tables of that main page show no difference between "default font" and "unicode font", so not much use if it's only the tables on which to decide which of the symbols are "usable" and which are not...

(side remark:) I use the (code from the) {{polytonic|...}} template often, for instance on wikisource:Koning_Oedipus - but that's of no relevance for page titles

Now for Satie's Rosicrucian work:

I have been google-testing, and come to the conclusion this is one of these cases where google-test is rather inconclusive. Don't get me wrong: I'm a big defender of intelligent google-testing, but also already remarked several times it does not always lead to a result; in this case searches seem to be biased by the fact that google uses "+" as an operator in search queries and it appears it can not be singled out in a clean way to get reliable results. Admittedly, on first sight there seem to be more cases where the "+" is surrounded by spaces for the Satie composition on English pages. Hundreds of these seem to come from two recent CD's: Excluding "Belfry" (the Bruges Belfry recording) and "Shimada" (the pianist of the other recording) reduced the search results to a few 10 - all in all no "sound" evidence, while for some reason or another Google always lists the pages where the "+" is separated by spaces first. So here's what I'd take as better evidence of the correct way of spelling it:
- Gillmore (one of of the biographers of Erik Satie, see references on Erik Satie page)
- Ornella Volta, even more an authority (Erik Satie centre in Paris, see same references)
- Orledge, another major authority on Satie, responsible for this list on the Erik Satie website: [2]
  
  Since all these authorities write without spaces (also when writing in English), I'd rather be inclined to think that the version without spaces would be the correct one.

But that doesn't solve our little problem, does it, only cuts away possibilities to find a "technical" solution that satisfies all...

Thinking it all over, since also the cross/plus ambiguity persists (which I don't see to solve in a swiff: I've written Ornella Volta before for guidance on the wikipedia Erik Satie article, but this thing seems comparably minor, and as she's completely a-technical - letters by snail mail or fax - I don't see how she could be of much help) - I somewhere came to think to resolve it best the same way it is solved presently for the RIZLA+ article:

RIZLA+: "correct" way of spelling: "RIZLA+"; "+" sign is in fact transliteration of a symbol that can not be used in a wikipedia pagename title: so: wikipedia page name cuts away the symbol (and puts all letters apart from the first in lower case per naming conventions for that matter), so the article title is: "Rizla"
Similarly: "Sonneries de la Rose+Croix" is correct, the symbol is "not possible" in wikipedia -> "Sonneries de la Rose Croix" as the pagename where the article is (+ message about technical limitations on top of the article, etc...; all other versions redirects...)

Of course I'd be interested to know whether you'd think that a viable solution... --Francis Schonken 12:34, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! --Francis Schonken 07:31, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Archdale

Please do not remove this from the list of towns in Randolph County, North Carolina. Also do not stupidly vandalize Piedmont Triad. You keep saying that the North Carolinian guy is a vandal where as you are the real vandal here.

If a sock of a returning persistent vandal and hoaxer makes 95% vandalism edits, you should expect all your edits to be rolled back. We waste too much time with you already to individually research each one of your "contributions". -- Curps 04:17, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Something you should know

I think you should take a peek at [3]. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 04:32, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. -- Curps 04:45, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

If anyone needs proof that "Dwight Ferris" is a sock of the North Carolina vandal, just look at [4] and the speedily deleted Lawsonnnnnnville and Carlow Crab! (recreation of VfD'd The Carlow Crab). -- Curps 04:56, 10 September 2005 (UTC)