User talk:David H. Flint

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Hello David H. Flint! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking Image:Signature icon.png or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Orangemarlin 06:31, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
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== Moses Blackman ==

Certainly Rev. is a title widely used in Britain and Commonwealth countries, though possibly less so now than formerly. You do not need to be an ordained rabbi to be a minister of religion. In particular, the great majority of chazzanim (cantors) are not rabbis. I don't know if that is true in the USA.--Newport 11:46, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Indeed, Simeon Singer was an ordained rabbi but I have never seen him referred to as other than Rev. Simeon Singer.--Newport 11:52, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

ok, i guess you are right. i have to improve my english as im not a native speaker, its much easier for me in spanish\hebrew or arabic.any way , i will do my best to follow your reasonable comments and to keep an apropriate acadmic level when i get to edit any article at wikipedia.--Gilisa 16:06, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gilisa on Georg Cantor

I noticed your comments on Gilisa's recent additions to Georg Cantor. It seems he is pushing for the POV that Georg Cantor was Jewish again, though this has been debated over so many times. Gilisa copied and pasted some segment of banter from what looks to be an extremist webpage, jinfo.org, on Georg Cantor, and in the process has lengthened the article to an even more unmanagable degree than before. I asked him to remove these changes but I doubt he will, as this seems to be his prerogative. I have a feeling if anyone else tries to remove them and restore the status quo, an edit war will erupt. --Tellerman

[edit] History of Springfield

Hope your still interested in penning this most important article, if not I always can. I am going to start you off with some sources I am finding. Most of them are database accesses that you will need to get through your local library (public/university) JSTOR and others. Check the URLs for specifics. Full citations below so you can just find the print version if you wanted, too.

  • Consummation of a Labor-Populist Alliance in Illinois, 1894, Chester McA. Destler, The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 27, No. 4. (Mar., 1941), pp. 589-602.

Had more and lost it, its on the Springfield talk page. [1] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by IvoShandor (talk • contribs) 13:26, 10 March 2007 (UTC).

How are you coming on this David? I saw you had a good chunk of the history done and it was looking great. After you are done, there any interest in doing that detailed of a history for Peoria?--Kranar drogin 04:24, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[2]: This book will be most helpful with the years. It doesn't have exact dates but it's a start. If you want I can finally take a look at what you have and maybe add and work on it some? IvoShandor 00:28, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Hey David. Good to see you around again. : ) IvoShandor 12:43, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
As with everything I say on discussion pages relating to editing and alterations of articles, they are simply suggestions, usually the organization presents itself when an article is close to complete. One day this will all be done and we will get Springfield featured, good thing we don't have deadlines around here. : )IvoShandor 05:40, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Geobox Town

Hello and thanks for your interest in this template. Concerning your first question, that shouldn't be happening. I recently completely reworked the code respansible for the map display as IE (esp. IE) users informed me about some issues concerning the map display. Could you please write me which browser (+OS) you're using?

As of the coordinates, well, I haven't thought of that. The Geobox puts the link in the title so there shouldn't bee the need for a secondary template which would do the same thing. But the Geobox formats the external map link with the parameter type:city while the {{Geolinks-US-cityscale}} sends a more specifix type:city_region:US, otherwise they create a link to the same page. I guess I'll add a parameter to the Geobox Town which would allow to define the type. – Caroig 20:00, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Just do not put px after the number, the template does it for you. It might seem odd but when the automated locator dot system is invoked it performs some calculations and needs raw numbers for them. OOF, you scared me, I spent quite a lot of time dealing with the display issues in various browsers (I prefer Opera) and managed to solve it so when you wrote me … I thought there were still some bugs. You might want to read the instructions for the template, it's rather complex, but I never do that myself ;-) – Caroig 20:35, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
I agree it would be better and cleaner if you could choose the units (pixels or percents) but the template syntax has very limited capabilities so I'm afraid if we want to keep the automated locator dot placement it must be this way, I hope it isn't such a drawback given what the system provides in exchange. – Caroig 20:47, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
There's a new field, coordinates_type, if you add coordinates_type = city_region:US to the geobox, it will provide the same type of link as the {{Geolinks-US-cityscale}} template.